Center for Data Innovation

This week’s roundup of data news from October 24 to October 30, 2026, features a robotics company collecting real-world data by paying people to walk robot dogs and a Microsoft initiative helping public libraries teach AI literacy.

1. Training Robo...

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Ismail Baran, CEO of HITAI, a London-based company that uses computer vision and machine learning to turn sports footage into detailed performance data. Baran explained how HITAI analyzes athletic movements, generates performance metrics, and helps m...

The nonprofit Wildlife Network has updated its interactive map of existing and planned wildlife crossings across California’s highway network. The visualization combines environmental and transportation data to highlight wildlife‑vehicle collision hotspots, habitat connectivity projects, and areas where roads restrict animal movement. Green marks completed crossings, yellow i...

Researchers at Stanford University and the Gladstone Institutes in California have created a dataset to show how genes interact in immune cells. It captures responses from 22 million T cells, which help fight disease, and records how changes in more than 12,000 genes affect activity across the cellular network. Tracking these interactions could help scientists map disease‑rel...

As artificial intelligence (AI) drives a new wave of data-center development, policymakers face a more complicated economic-development question than they did when these facilities attracted relatively little public scrutiny. Data centers can bring substantial investment, tax revenue, and economic activity, but they can also require significant investments in electricity gene...