Center for Data Innovation

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from July 18, 2026, to July 24, 2026, features an AI system that detects wildfires before they spread and robots that can tell the difference between objects that are safe to bump into and those that are not.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a visual showing how food consumption has changed around the world. The visual combines food-production data, waste estimates, dietary surveys, and nutritional requirements to estimate food consumption from 1990 to 2020. Lighter yellow indicates lower food consumption, while darker blue highlights higher-consuming regions, ...

Virginia-based data-labeling startup Enabled Intelligence has created a dataset built from real Ukrainian drone footage captured during the ongoing war. The collection contains more than half a million hours of continuous aerial video labeled for object detection, vehicle classification, and ground activity. By using footage from real-world operations, the dataset helps devel...

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Kelri Luks, CEO of Muun Health, an Estonia-based company developing a wearable hormone-monitoring platform. Luks explained how the company’s sensor is designed to continuously measure hormone changes and help women and clinicians better understa...

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from July 11, 2026, to July 17, 2026, features an AI model that helps balance water demand between agriculture and semiconductor manufacturing and a new marine robotics hub developing autonomous systems to recover critical minerals from the seafloor.