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Google released Dataset Search to the world last week. Some asked for my thoughts on the new tool, and as you know, ask and you shall receive. Plus, finding, gathering, and curating data is often the most tedious and time-consuming part of a visualization project. So anything to speed up the collection process is worth a look.

Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…

Look from the above at the shapes and geometry we use for cities,…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…

Anna Vital, in collaboration with the Google News Lab, shows the search popularity…

Keith Collins reporting for Quartz: Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have…

Google equipped their Street View cars with air quality sensors and sent them…

If a news organization wants to talk about the world in a fair…

The Teachable Machine from Støj, Use All Five, and Google is a fun…

Xaquín G.V., in collaboration with the Google News Lab, investigated what people around…

Google released the Quick, Draw! dataset, so the closer looks at the collection…

Thu-Huong Ha and Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz looked at the doodling dataset from…

Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…

For Co.Design, Periscopic compared patent ownership between Apple and Google, which ends up…

People go to Google to find information about things, and when new words…

Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and…

A few years back, Google released a time-lapse feature in Google Earth that…

Food trends come and go. Some stay longer than expected, and others come…

Different species of birds make different sounds. However, the sounds are so quick…