How to Close the Digital Divide in the U.S.
by Bhaskar Chakravorti July 20, 2021 Finally, America appears to be taking bold action on fixing its fraying infrastructure. President Joe Biden’s proposed American Jobs Plan —…
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Consumer Reports: Millions of Americans Lack Fast Internet Service
Friday, August 6, 2021 Weekly Digest You’re reading the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s Weekly Digest, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked)…
How to Plot a Bar Graph in Matplotlib: The Easy Way
A bar graph or bar chart is one of the most common visualization types and is very easy to create in Matplotlib. All we need…
Our Challenge to Finally Close the Digital Divide
Friday, July 30, 2021 Weekly Digest You’re reading the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s Weekly Digest, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked)…
A framework to prioritize disease risk between wildlife and livestock
In their latest research, Khanyari and colleagues develop a three-step framework to assess cross-species disease transmission risk between migrating wildlife and livestock in data-limited circumstances…
Bee abundance estimates vary by collection method and flowering richness
Monitoring bee populations is becoming increasingly important and commonplace, but do current methods produce reliable estimates of bee communities? Authors Marirose Kuhlman and Philip Hahn…
Broadband in the Black Rural South
Friday, July 23, 2021 Weekly Digest You’re reading the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s Weekly Digest, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked)…
Streetlights disrupt both flying and crawling invertebrates—but not in the same ways
A new study by Lockett and colleagues explores how the proximity, intensity and colour of streetlighting impacts arthropods occupying different spatial niches, by simultaneously sampling…
Understanding Broadband Speed Data in NTIA’s Indicators of Broadband Need
Thursday, July 22, 2021 Digital Beat Ritzo The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently released a new public map, the…
From another dimension: the rise of 3D data in ecology
Increasingly complex research questions demand increasingly complex data – of which 3D data is one example. The move from 2D to 3D gives us (quite…