Author: Kalev Leetaru
The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation
Kalev will be speaking at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…
Image Sharing Across The News: Social Media Site Overlap
Following from our graph of global news coverage image overlap, what would it look like to limit that graph to…
Visualizing The Network Of Image Sharing Across The Global News Landscape
Each image in the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is analyzed by Google Cloud Vision API's "WebEntities" that performs the…
Visual Global Knowledge Graph Expands To Coverage In All 152 Monitored Languages
Historically the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has only processed articles found in the GKG, which limited it to the 65…
Global Difference Graph Covers All 152 Monitored Languages
As GDELT's transition to GDELT 3.0 accelerates, it is worth remembering that since its launch in August 2018, the Global…
Visual Global Knowledge Graph Adds Image Caption, Page Title And Page Language
We're excited to announce today that the Visual Global Knowledge Graph has added three new fields to the "ImageProperties" object…
The Divergent Media Profiles Of Trump And Biden Post-Election
How have the media profiles of Trump and Biden diverged since the election? Has the media's focus shifted from the…
We're Talking Less About Inflation Than We Used To
As economists discuss what a Biden presidency might mean for the economy, the impact of ever-wider government spigots on inflation…
We Haven't Talked About Debt Since November 2013
The three major national cable news channels have largely stopped talking about debt since November 2013. Discussion of the "national…
A Look At Impeachment Talk On Television News Since Trump's Election
Within days of Donald Trump's surprise 2016 election, television news was already beginning to discuss his eventual impeachment, a topic…
A Reminder That The Russia Story Began Four Weeks After The Election
White House watchers trying to divine President Trump's next move might do well to look at the timeline below, showing…
WashPost: Turns Out That Media Coverage Of The Virus Wasn't Just A Ploy To Hurt Trump
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at television news coverage of the pandemic since the election. Read The Full Article.
The Armenia Versus Azerbaijan Conflict On Television News: Who Is Covering It The Most?
Which television stations are paying the most attention to the Armenia – Azerbaijan conflict? Al Jazeera has mentioned the two…
Chicago's Morning Answer: The Dan Proft Show: Freedom Of Speech On Social Media
Kalev appeared on the Dan Proft show this morning with guest host John Hinderaker from the Powerline Blog to discuss…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Disappears In Leadup To Election
Beginning October 27th, CNN sharply decreased the daily airtime of its COVID-19 tracking dashboard, dropping to zero from November 4…
World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers: Big Data, Big Stories
Kalev will be speaking at the 2020 World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers in a talk titled "Big Data,…
Improved Unicode Escaping In Visual Global Knowledge Graph EXIF Data
Historically, the Visual Global Knowledge Graph has embedded extracted EXIF metadata in standard UTF8 JSON encoding. This has proved challenging…
A Compilation Of All EXIF Tags In The Visual Global Knowledge Graph In 2020
Since its launch in December 2015, the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has analyzed more than 600 million images from…
Improved OCR Language Support In The Visual Global Knowledge Graph
Building on advances in Google's Cloud Vision API OCR, which today supports more than 220 languages, the Visual Global Knowledge…
DyERNIE: Dynamic Evolution of Riemannian Manifold Embeddings For Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
This paper by researchers at LMU Munich, Siemens AG and Technical University of Munich uses GDELT as a dataset to…
Television News Never Stopped Talking About The Election After 2016
In the aftermath of the 2014 election, mentions of "election" on television news quickly dropped off to its previous levels….
Mentions Of "Illegitimate" Soar During Trump Era On Television News
The term "illegitimate" rarely appeared on television news over Obama's tenure, though MSNBC used it more than its peers, but…
Immigration All But Disappears From Television News Since August 2019
Immigration has ebbed and flowed over the past decade on television news, increasing in early 2013 and remaining elevated since…
Comparing "Blue Wave" In 2017-2018 And 2020 On Television News
The term "blue wave" first emerged on television news in November 2017, ramping up almost linearly through the 2018 midterms….