Author: Kalev Leetaru
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…
Washington Times: Joe Biden's Toughest Choice Of All
The Washington Times' look at Biden's campaign cites Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of his media coverage. Read The Full Article.
Conflict or Cooperation? Predicting Future Tendency Of International Relations
Forecasting global conflict and cooperating using Multi-input LSTM: International relations analysis is crucial to many stakeholders including policy makers, executives…
Graph Hawkes Network for Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graphs
An interesting approach to encoding the dynamics of evolving graph sequences: The Hawkes process has become a standard method for…
University of Sao Paulo: Covid-19 News Dashboard
Researchers from the University of São Paulo's Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences have developed a Covid-19 news dashboard that…
How Television News Mentions Of Covid-19 Terminology Stacks 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…
Mentions Of Cancellations Have Faded
The timeline below shows mentions of cancellations since the start of this year, with an increase around January 14th leading…
A New Dataset For Exploring The Global Multilingual Covid-19 Online News Narrative
UPDATE (4/26/2020): Now updating daily! How has Covid-19 been covered around the world and how does that coverage compare to…
Charting The Trajectories Of 'Social Distancing' Vs Quarantine Vs Washing Vs Ventilators
The timeline below plots the television news trajectories of several Covid-19 topics. Mentions of washing one's hands and avoiding touching…
Tracing The Evolution Of The US Government's Covid-19 Narrative: From Fauci's 'Miniscule' Risk To 'Social Distancing'
One of the fascinating things we're hoping to see researchers explore with our new Covid-19 online news dataset are explorations…
Coronavirus Bulldozes The 2020 Race Out Of The Media Spotlight
As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, how extensively are the media covering it, what is it displacing and…
Now Live Updating & Expanded: A New Dataset For Exploring The Coronavirus Narrative In Global Online News
Two weeks ago we released a compilation of URLs and brief snippets of worldwide English language news coverage mentioning Covid-19….
2020 Democratic Race All But Disappears From The News
The 2020 Democratic race has all but disappeared from the news, replaced by the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. Mentions of…
The New Humanitarian: COVID-19 Tears Media Attention Away From Syria
The New Humanitarian includes this sad and sobering look at how mentions of toilet paper shortages have now replaced the…
New Humanitarian: Composite Image Of Covid-19 Virus Made From News Mask Images
The fascinating visualization at the top of this New Humanitarian article was created by Ben Parker by using the DOC…
Online Media Coverage Of Covid-19-Related Racial Attacks Increasing Steadily
The timeline below shows online news coverage of racial attacks related to Covid-19 using the query "(coronavirus OR covid OR…
On Television News Covid-19-Based Racial Discrimination Gets Little Coverage Outside Fox News
Television news coverage on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News has paid little attention to racist incidents, especially against Asians, due…
Recession Prediction Markets And Macroeconomic Risk In Asset Prices
This paper by Harvard Kennedy School's Jonathan Hartley includes a brief GDELT analysis. Read The Full Paper.
Mentions Of "Chinese Virus" Surge On Fox But Just A Fraction Of Total Coverage
Earlier this month the White House attempted to rebrand Covid-19 as the "Chinese Virus", with the president infamously crossing out…
National Review: Could A "Draft Cuomo" Movement Be In The Democrats' Future?
The National Review's John Fund references Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of media coverage of Cuomo's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read…
Assessing Italian Press Tone Towards China
This interesting post on Chinese Q&A site Zhihu uses GDELT's tone data to assess Italian press coverage of China. Read…