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Energy surges due to solar storm

by Nathan Yau | May 24, 2024 | Bloomberg, energy, Maps, solar, storm

The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some parts of the country, but they can also bring challenges to the power grid. For Bloomberg, Hayley Warren, Denise Lu, and Naureen Malik look at the surges through the lens of data collected by...

Limited progress towards a plan for planting 1 trillion trees

by Nathan Yau | May 6, 2024 | Bloomberg, Infographics, Marc Benioff, scale, trees

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1 trillion trees by 2030. Bloomberg uses small dots to show how much more is left to achieve the target amount. The gray dots are what still needs to be planted. It’s kind of a lot, but fingers...

Scented products with potentially harmful ingredients

by Nathan Yau | Apr 16, 2024 | Bloomberg, Infographics, ingredient, safety

For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting: Data collected by the California Department of Public Health showed 108 potentially harmful substances listed as fragrance ingredients in everyday products ranging from face...

Racial bias in OpenAI GPT resume rankings

by Nathan Yau | Mar 17, 2024 | bias, Bloomberg, openai, race, resume, Statistical Visualization

AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes. This seems like a decent idea on the surface, until you realize that the models that the AI is built on lean more towards certain demographics. For Bloomberg, Leon Yin, Davey Alba, and Leonardo...

Generative AI exaggerates stereotypes

by Nathan Yau | Jun 12, 2023 | ai, bias, Bloomberg, Infographics, Stable Diffusion

Perhaps to no one’s surprise, generative artificial intelligence models contain bias rooted in the data that drive them and by the people who design the systems. For Bloomberg, Leonardo Nicoletti and Dina Bass examined the extent to which the bias exists through the...

Switching to electric school buses

by Nathan Yau | Apr 30, 2023 | Bloomberg, electric vehicle, Infographics, LEGO, school bus

For Bloomberg, Zahra Hirji and Denise Lu on the electrification of the national school bus fleet: Most school buses today run on diesel. The climate footprint of a diesel school bus is about 3.3 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per mile, more than double the...