AI: The Good & The Bad

So many nuances to AI - here's a compilation of resources:

• Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care
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Data Center Infrastructure in the United States (2025)

The map of Data Center Infrastructure in the United States, 2025 is just that: a classic 'static' map.

Cracking Ice!

Cool satellite image animation shared by NASA!

Food Deserts / Grocery Deserts

Great web map: Mapping Food Deserts and Grocery Store Consolidation

Now...if they would only offer a way to download the data!

The Oldest Globe

As seen on Maps Mania: the world’s oldest surviving terrestrial globe from 1492 that obivously does not yet include the Americas!

Letters From The Earth

Cool project & something that I have been thinking about: sure, we have plenty of data & facts, but now can those be made a) meaningful to b) promote reasonable actions?

Letters From The Earth uses AI to translate 'boring' data into expressive text = If the Earth could describe its own day using the same signals we collect about it, what would it say?

Their Core Hypothesis: Data contains expressive qualities beyond analytics, and AI can translate those qualities into new modalities that invite more people to participate in understanding and meaning.

Fair Point!

 

Cloud Optimized Data Formats

Cloud Optimized Data Formats is about as boring as it gets...but not when they are explained in a fun zine-comic book! Here's the link: Optimizing Geospatial for the Cloud

Brilliant!

Brilliant has been around for a while, but the free version always has been a little limited. But there is an Education Version for K-12 as well that offer free premium access - might be interesting!

Napkin.ai

From the website: "Napkin turns your text into visuals so sharing your ideas is quick and effective." Sounds interesting and there is a free version.

Try it here: https://www.napkin.ai/

The Kitzmiller v. Dover Quiz!

Pretty cool: The Kitzmiller v. Dover Quiz

More about this topic here: https://ncse.ngo/articles/260

EMBER

EMBER offers great data and nice visual data explorers for all kinds of domestic and international energt data. The data are available for download as CSVs and the interactive charts as PNGs and the data for each chart as CSVs as well = great!

• US Electricity Data Explorer
• Electricity Data Explorer (international)