Author: Kalev Leetaru
Virus Experts' Early Statements Belie 'Prescient' Portrayal
As predictions of the coronavirus’ impact have grown more dire and the White House has belatedly acknowledged the pathogen’s repercussions…
Anxiety-Related Language Soars In Global Online News Since Late February
This past October we showcased using the Web News Ngrams dataset to measure global anxiety using a single BigQuery query…
Visualizing The Entity Graph Around 'Shortages' And Covid-19
Following the incredible graph BBVA created of co-occurring organization names in Covid-19 coverage, we've constructed the graph below of co-occurring…
Visualizing Entity Co-Occurrences In Covid-19 Coverage Using The Natural Language API
What might the Global Entity Graph tell us about the co-occurrence network of entities mentioned in coverage of Covid-19, as…
Even April Fool's Day Succumbs To Covid-19
The timeline below plots online news coverage of April Fool's since January 2017, showing this year's coverage was half the…
What The Data Tell Us About Impeachment As Virus Distraction
Mitch McConnell suggested this week that the U.S. government’s delayed response to the coronavirus pandemic could be traced back, in…
Global News Mentions Of "Supply Chains" Soar
Across the world, global online news coverage volume mentioning "supply chain" or "supply chains" is soaring: Live Version. On television…
Medical Imagery On Evening Television News Surging
The total airtime of ABC, CBS and NBC's evening news broadcasts devoted to depictions of medical imagery have soared in…
Searching For Global News Images Of Masks Using The Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG)
Since December 2015, GDELT's Visual Global Knowledge Graph has analyzed more than half a billion worlwide news images through Google's…
Using BigQuery's New Limit-Free DML To Create Our Covid 19 Snippet Datasets
Over the past week and a half we've released two massive new datasets of news snippets (television news and online…
A Look At GDELT's Open AI Datasets: Video, Imagery, Speech And Natural Language Understanding
GDELT has been an early alpha user of many of Google's Cloud AI offerings, exploring how the rapidly advancing world…
Covid-19 Beats Ebola, Vaping and The Opioid Epidemic On Television News
Using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the Covid-19 pandemic has eclipsed the Ebola outbreak in mentions, while…
Fox News Covered Opioid Epidemic The Most
While mentions of the opioid epidemic have been largely displaced by the intense discourse surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, the graph…
Explore Centuries Of National Parks And Landscapes Through Book Images
Explore the beauty of America's national parks, including special collections like Yellowstone, as well as parks and landscapes in general…
Explore The Visual World Of Emblem Books
Explore digitized emblem books from the Internet Archive's collections through this book image collection compiled in 2014. View.
Explore The Visual History Of Railroads Through Book Images
Explore the visual history of the railroad through digitized book images from the Internet Archive through this book image collection…
Explore 500 Years Of Bird Illustrations Through Book Images
Explore 500 years of illustrations of birds and other animals, real and imagined, from book images, including the Smithsonian Libraries…
Explore Historical And Fantastical Places Through 500 Years Of Book Images
Across the more than 600 million pages of books published over 500 years there are myriad fantastical scenes from across…
Explore 500 Years Of World Maps Through Book Images
Explore 500 years of maps of the world, compiled in 2014 from the Internet Archive's book collection. View Collection.
Explore The Evolution Of The Telephone Through Book Images
Take a virtual tour through the history of the telephone's visual depictions over its early formative decades through book images…
Covid-19 Television And Online News Snippet Datasets Available In BigQuery
To help researchers explore the media narratives around the Covid-19 pandemic, we've produced two datasets consisting of brief snippets of…
Virtual Traveling Through 500 Years Of Book Images
For those yearning to travel to faraway places and experience new things in these troubled times, you can see the…
Mining International Political Norms From The GDELT Database
This paper by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science and the University of Otago explores the codification of political…
How Online News Mentions Of Covid-19 Terminology Stack Up Against Dictionary Searches
The Economist's Daily Chart published a fascinating set of charts last week tracing elevated dictionary lookups on Merriam Webster's site…