Repairing Panama Canal water levels
FlowingData
JANUARY 4, 2024
McDonald report on the efforts to maintain water levels in the Panama Canal. Tags: Bloomberg , Panama Canal , water For Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Michael D.
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Infinite Craft with large language model
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Start with water, fire, wind, and earth and see what you can craft by combining elements. Tags: game , Large Language Model , Neal Agarwal Neal Agarwal made a game, Infinite Craft , that uses Llama 2 , a large language model, to build just about anything.
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Declining groundwater
FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The New York Times analyzed water levels across the country since 1920. Tags: New York Times , water In more recent years, the levels aren’t looking great if we want to keep growing crops. An animated map using angled lines shows the fluctuations and decline.
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AI unlocks secrets of Amazon river dolphins’ behavior, no tagging required
AUGUST 1, 2023
In the wet season, water spills from the rivers, flooding parts of the forests. Researchers who study the dolphins typically use boats to follow and sometimes tag […] Freshwater dolphins navigate the waterways of the Amazon Basin.
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World water gap
FlowingData
APRIL 3, 2023
We tend to use more water than is available in the world, which as you can imagine, can be problematic. In a collaborative effort, National Geographic mapped the water gap since 1980 : The result is a water gap in an increasing number of places. Tags: animation , National Geographic , water
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When you cross hyrdopower and a battery
FlowingData
MAY 3, 2023
Instead of a big dam to store water, two reservoirs are used. When there is excess power available, water is pumped to the higher one, and when more is needed, water is released down to the lower one. Tags: energy , New York Times , renewable One is high. The other is low.
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Melting ice, global effects
FlowingData
APRIL 28, 2023
However, as NPR shows and describes in a visual series , the large amounts of fresh water melting into the ocean mixes in with currents and changes temperatures, chemistry, and water levels globally. Tags: climate change , glaciers , NPR Ice is melting at the poles, which makes it seem like a localized problem.
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Science behind California rains
FlowingData
APRIL 13, 2023
Diana Leonard and Dylan Moriarty, for The Washington Post, explain the science behind all the water falling from the sky. Tags: rain , Washington Post , weather It rained a lot more than usual this winter in California.
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Mapping the sea floor
FlowingData
JANUARY 2, 2023
Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of sea floor : In 2004 and 2005, two research vessels, Ocean Explorer and Connecticut set off into the waters off Cape Ann, Massachusetts on a U.S. Geological Survey scientists to characterize the makeup of the sediment and bedrock in waters up to 92 meters deep.
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Map of drying reservoirs in the west
FlowingData
JULY 13, 2021
To show water levels in California’s drying reservoirs, The Washington Post used upside down triangles to represent each reservoir. Tags: California , drought , Washington Post , water. Maybe the tradeoff isn’t worth it in this case? Compare this against a circle representation from 2015.
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What Americans drink and their changing habits
FlowingData
JULY 19, 2023
When I was a kid, I drank a lot of milk and bottled water wasn’t really a thing. Tags: beverages , USAFacts In high school, coffee entered the picture (mostly because my friends liked to hang out at coffee shops), and in adulthood, beer is more common.
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Shifting currents and melting ice in the Antarctic
FlowingData
DECEMBER 23, 2021
For The New York Times, Henry Fountain and Jeremy White show how the shifts have unwelled centuries-old water deep in the ocean , which releases carbon into the air. Tags: Antarctic , climate change , ice , New York , scrollytelling , water. The scrollytelling format of this piece works well to show sensor estimates over time.
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Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up
FlowingData
JANUARY 5, 2022
Learner just expanded the project to let you drop water anywhere in the world. Tags: rain , river , Sam Learner , water. One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you a terrain map that lets you place a drop of rain anywhere in the contiguous United States.
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Reservoir refills in California
FlowingData
JANUARY 20, 2023
For The New York Times, Elena Shao, Mira Rojanasakul, and Nadja Popovich show the sudden bump in water supply. Tags: California , drought , New York Times , rain There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to relieve some of the pressures from drought, at least in the short-term. Very reservoir-ish.
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A visual and audio tour of sound at Nap Nap Swamp
FlowingData
JANUARY 14, 2022
When I think swamp noise, I imagine a blob of sound that’s some mix of water and wildlife, but that’s because I don’t know anything. You hear the sounds of running water, wind, and different animals with various patterns. You hear the sounds of running water, wind, and different animals with various patterns.
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A hotter year, again
FlowingData
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Warmer ocean waters fed stronger storms. Tags: climate , global warming , Reuters , temperature For Reuters, Gloria Dickie, Travis Hartman and Clare Trainor highlight the rising temperatures and the bad stuff that follows. This year’s added warming has been like pouring gasoline on a fire. Extremes became more extreme.
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Future monsoon patterns
FlowingData
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The monsoon season in South Asia brings water to the people and land, but signs point to more intense rain as overall temperatures go up. Tags: monsoon , New York Times , rain. To show the change in rain, Zach Levitt and Jeremy White, for The New York Times, go with a rain drop aesthetic. Also wind maps with lines that resemble wind.
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Map shows you where a raindrop ends up
FlowingData
MAY 25, 2021
This uses USGS NHDPlus data and their NLDI API to visualize the path of a rain droplet from any point in the contiguous United States to its end point (usually the ocean, sometimes the Great Lakes, Canada/Mexico, or another inland water feature). Tags: rain , Sam Learner , water. via Waxy ].
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Exports through the Mississippi River
FlowingData
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Drought has caused water levels to drop in the Mississippi River, which is a problem when millions of tons of grain are moved for export via boat. Tags: Bloomberg , drought , Mississippi , river. Bloomberg Green breaks it down , including a flow-ish, river-like Sankey Diagram to show where grain exports go.
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Supermarket provides AI-driven meal planner and is disappointed by the internet using it to output weird recipes
FlowingData
AUGUST 15, 2023
One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. Tags: AI , grocery , Guardian , recipes When customers began experimenting with entering a wider range of household shopping list items into the app, however, it began to make even less appealing recommendations.
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Mapping the cool spots in hot cities
FlowingData
AUGUST 5, 2022
Bodies of water, greenery, and reflective surfaces. Tags: Bloomberg , climate , cooling , heat. These snapshots of heat differences offer clear evidence of cooling strategies that can counteract what researchers term the “urban heat island effect,” in which city temperatures get that extra boost.
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Rocketbook Everyday Planner Review and Demo
Data Science 101
JANUARY 17, 2024
Great for weekly, monthly, yearly or daily planning Save your schedules as digital notes Transfer your handwritten notes to a digital notes for storage and distribution Tag your notes for quicker access later Title your notes Search your notes in either the free Rocketbook app or your chosen destination Group Note pages together for better organization (..)
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Using cold lake water to cool buildings
FlowingData
AUGUST 23, 2023
There are buildings in Toronto, Canada that make use of a deep lake water cooling (DLWC) system, including Scotiabank Arena, home of the Toronto Raptors. Cold water pumps from nearby Lake Ontario and then flows through pipes in buildings to absorb heat. Tags: cooling , Washington Post
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What Is a Transformer Model?
Hacker News
MARCH 25, 2022
Transformers use positional encoders to tag data elements coming in and out of the network. Attention units follow these tags, calculating a kind of algebraic map of how each element relates to the others. For example, in the sentence: She poured water from the pitcher to the cup until it was full. .
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Ski resorts dealing with fewer snow days
FlowingData
MARCH 2, 2023
For Bloomberg Green, Jin Wu, Laura Millan and Hayley Warren, on the challenges ski resorts face with rising temperatures : Artificial snowmaking has become more efficient, so it uses less water and electricity. Tags: Bloomberg , skiing , snow
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7 Ways Small Businesses Use Data Analytics for Expense Tracking
Smart Data Collective
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Big data technology has made it a lot easier to maintain a decent profit margin as they try to keep their heads above water during a horrific economic downturn. Likewise, it consists of an auto-tag that will repeat all expenses, letting you differentiate between business and personal expenses. Do you know the best part?
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What does Apple Vision Pro do: Comprehensive overview
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
” As one of Apple’s most ambitious undertakings, the Vision Pro has been a year in development, loaded with groundbreaking technology, including the introduction of a new operating system, visionOS, which alone could justify its significant price tag.
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How Big Data Will Make Or Break Future Smart Cities
Smart Data Collective
JUNE 23, 2019
By collecting data, open spots in the structure can be tagged and it can be identified when the structure is full. Smart water meters, for example, can be installed in homes and businesses to boost sustainability measures and enable smart urban planning. Resource management. Sustainability. Conclusion.
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Scale of ocean depths
FlowingData
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
MetaBallStudios , a YouTube channel that focuses on perspective and 3-D animation, guides you through the depths of major bodies of water. Tags: 3-d , depth , MetaBallStudios , ocean , scale. We know the oceans are deep, but it’s difficult to grasp the scale of just how deep, because, well, it’s underwater. via kottke ].
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Beyond prompting: getting production quality LLM performance with Snorkel Flow
Snorkel AI
AUGUST 9, 2023
For example, your input to the model may look something like this, with the description of each individual product listing slotted between the curly brackets: Product Description: “{product_description}” Extract all the phrases from Product Description describing the water, stain, fade, or other resistances that the product has.
Beyond prompting: getting production quality LLM performance with Snorkel Flow
Snorkel AI
AUGUST 9, 2023
For example, your input to the model may look something like this, with the description of each individual product listing slotted between the curly brackets: Product Description: “{product_description}” Extract all the phrases from Product Description describing the water, stain, fade, or other resistances that the product has.
Measuring centuries-old droughts through tree rings
FlowingData
JUNE 18, 2021
To measure drought in the present day, we use data from sensors that constantly record environmental conditions, such as soil moisture, precipitation, and snow water content. Tags: Alvin Chang , drought , Guardian , tree ring. But to measure drought thousands of years ago, researchers can use tree rings.
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Sequoia tree wildfire protection
FlowingData
AUGUST 8, 2022
Firefighters help by watering the ground underneath and directing giant flames to other areas. Tags: Reuters , sequoia , trees , wildfire. The trees have their own protections with thick bark and dropped branches. I’m into the vintage-y illustration.
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5 Incredible IoT Applications In Civil Engineering
Smart Data Collective
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Many nuanced tasks need to be completed, whether they involve tracking and measuring building supplies or tagging field equipment and dividing it up properly. Soil and ground movement, earthquakes, changes in water levels and similar events can impact the project. Real-time solutions also provide faster time-to-action.
Listen to the silent symphony of machines
Dataconomy
JULY 14, 2023
This can help to improve logistics and reduce theft Smart cities : M2M can be used to monitor and control city infrastructure, such as traffic lights and water meters. RFID tags can be attached to objects in order to collect data about their location, movement, and status.
Life in the Gaza Strip
FlowingData
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The New York Times put together an image of what life is like in Gaza right now : bombing, death, food and water shortage, and limited medical supplies. Tags: Gaza , life , New York Times A 3-D basemap of the Gaza Strip sets the foundation of the story and layers of individual stories and overall destruction display on top.
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A generative AI-powered solution on Amazon SageMaker to help Amazon EU Design and Construction
AWS Machine Learning Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Question What are the PLUMBING requirements for Drinking Fountains and Water Coolers? Minimum of two units dispensing cooled and room temperature water to be provided at each location. Minimum of two units dispensing cooled and room temperature water to be provided at each location.
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World Bank’s Gender Data Portal
FlowingData
MARCH 9, 2022
Making sex-disaggregated data easier to analyze, interpret and visualize will bring into focus gender issues that are frequently invisible, including on topics such as digital development, transport, and water. Tags: gender , World Bank. It will highlight existing gender gaps as well as gaps in the availability of gender data.
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7 Ways Big Data Is Pushing CBD Marketing Into The 21st Century
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Through the data you’ve collected, you can run highly effective influencer marketing campaigns that blow your competitors out of the water. You can also use keyword and hashtag research to help you identify trending terms and tags you should be using in your posts to draw the most attention.
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Beyond the Mud: Datasets, Benchmarks, and Methods for Computer Vision in Off-Road Racing
ML @ CMU
MARCH 22, 2024
These systems are adept at navigating through thousands of photos to tag athletes, enabling fans and participants alike to swiftly locate images of specific racers or moments from events. This technology has seamlessly integrated into various sports , significantly enhancing the spectator experience and operational efficiency.
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Beyond the Mud: Datasets, Benchmarks, and Methods for Computer Vision in Off-Road Racing
ML @ CMU
MARCH 25, 2024
These systems are adept at navigating through thousands of photos to tag athletes, enabling fans and participants alike to swiftly locate images of specific racers or moments from events. This technology has seamlessly integrated into various sports , significantly enhancing the spectator experience and operational efficiency.
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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2023: Key announcements
Dataconomy
JULY 26, 2023
inch Super AMOLED display Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor 8GB of RAM 128GB of storage 12MP main camera 12MP ultrawide camera $1,000 price tag The Galaxy Z Flip 5 is a major increase over its predecessor, with a more powerful CPU, more memory, and a bigger screen. inch AMOLED display 2.1-inch inch AMOLED display 6.1-inch
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Deep Learning Approaches to Sentiment Analysis (with spaCy!)
ODSC - Open Data Science
APRIL 28, 2023
In English, “well” can refer to a state of being and a device for retrieving water. Introduction to SpaCy SpaCy is a python library designed to provide a “complete” NLP pipeline, including ingestion, tokenization, tagging, representation, and even classification. It’s all about context!
The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive explained
IBM Journey to AI blog
APRIL 21, 2023
There are several data-intensive disclosures within the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) covering greenhouse gas emissions, energy, waste, water, recycling and social metrics. The practice is on an upward trend and is now tangibly reflected in the new ESRS as a reporting requirement.
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