Author: Kalev Leetaru
Television News Covid-19 Mentions Not Rising
While public health officials warn of the potential for a Thanksgiving superspreader event, the percentage of daily airtime on television…
Biden Mentions At Around 10% Of Television News
Despite being the president-elect, mentions of Joe Biden on television news fell sharply since he was declared the winner and…
Global Relationship Graph Reaches 280 Million Verb Clauses
The Global Relationship Graph's Verb-Centered NGram pilot that debuted on October 28th has reached 280 million verb clauses! Each of…
WashPost: Trump Will Soon Leave The White House. How Long Before He Stops Dominating The Conversation?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at just how large Trump's shadow looms over the media landscape. Read The Full…
Evaluating The "Readability" Of Online COVID-19 News Coverage
Using our massive new dataset of readability scores of worldwide English language news coverage of 2020, how might we evaluate…
Readability Scores Dataset For Worldwide Online News Coverage in 2020
As we seek new ways of assessing and understanding how news conveys the world each day, one thread of our…
Trump Fading On Television News Since Election
From mid-October to election day, mentions of Donald Trump have surged across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, but since November…
Television News Is Still Covering Trump's Tweets
Far from fading into obscurity with his electoral loss, Trump's tweets are getting just as much attention as they ever…
JSON-LD Scanning Of Global News Media Coming To GDELT 3.0
As we constantly evolve our underlying crawling and document identification infrastructures, we regularly evaluate the state of underlying internet technologies,…
Mentions Of "Superspreaders" Fade On Television News
So-called "superspreaders" have been mentioned on television news throughout 2020, but surged briefly during the entire month of October, with…
Television News Coverage Of "Social Distancing" Never Recovered After George Floyd Protests
Mentions of "social distancing" soared into the media lexicon in mid-March and accounted for 1-4% of daily airtime on CNN,…
Mentions Of "Safe Spaces" Have Faded On Television News
The concept of "safe spaces" entered the television news lexicon around mid-2014, with Fox News focusing on them from late…
Impact Of Trump's Promotion Of Unproven COVID-19 Treatments And Subsequent Internet Trends: Observational Study
A fascinating paper by Kacper Niburski1 and Oskar Niburski explores the connection between President Trump's promotion of COVID-19 treatments and…
Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference Today
Kalev is speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference today! Learn More.
The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation Today
Kalev is speaking today at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…
World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers: Big Data, Big Stories: Next Month
Attend the 2020 World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers next month to hear Kalev speak about "Big Data, Big…
Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference
Kalev will be speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference this week! Learn More.
Television News Refocuses On The Pandemic
Mentions of the pandemic dropped off a cliff on television news in the leadup to the election, with MSNBC shifting…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back After Biden Win
CNN's omnipresent Covid-19 dashboard all but disappeared beginning October 27th as the channel switched to its round-the-clock election news. However,…
GDELT 3.0: Unified Global Crawler Fleet
Historically, GDELT has operated multiple parallel crawler fleets distributed across Google Cloud Platform's global datacenters, each dedicated to a particular…
Tucker Decomposition-Based Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
This paper by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses GDELT to explore temporal knowledge completion: Knowledge graphs have…
A Primer On Mis/Disinformation, Propaganda, Falsehoods And Digital Literacy
Given the growing interest in mis/disinformation, propaganda, falsehoods, deep fakes and digital literacy, we've pulled together a collection of links…
GDELT 3.0 Coming Soon
We are enormously excited to announce that GDELT 3.0 is at long last in the early stages of rolling out!…
Recurrent Event Network: Autoregressive Structure Inference Over Temporal Knowledge Graphs
This paper by researchers at the University of Southern California, Quebec AI Institute and the University of Montreal examines inference…