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Born Out Of The 2014 Ebola Epidemic GDELT's Mass Translation Infrastructure Helped BlueDot Identify 2019's Coronavirus

On March 13, 2014, GDELT's global monitoring infrastructure detected the first local media reports of what would go on to…

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MARISA GDELT Mapping Service

An interesting visual from the MARISA maritime analysis service. View The Full Tweet Read More About The Project.

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Using BigQuery DML & External Temporary Table Querying For Realtime Updates

Over the coming weeks GDELT's television-related BigQuery tables will begin loading data live as it is processed (as it rolls…

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BlueDot's Alerting System Sent One Of The Earliest Coronavirus Alerts

BlueDot Global has long used GDELT to track global news coverage of disease outbreaks across the world, feeding GDELT's results…

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What Google's Cloud Video AI Sees Watching Decade Of Television News: The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0

UPDATE (8/7/2020): Thanks to a Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant to the Media-Data Research Consortium, this dataset has been vastly…

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WashPost: Fox News Begins And Ends Its Super Bowl Coverage The Same Way: Getting Trump's Back

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at the political discourse in Fox News' Super Bowl coverage. Read The Full Article.

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China Mentions Map

An interesting visualization of geographic connections with China: View The Full Tweet.

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Enhanced 'Last 72 Hours' Option For Television Explorer

As researchers and journalists are increasingly using the Television Explorer to track coverage of and reaction to fast-moving events, there…

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Leeds: A Global Struggle: Worker Protest In The Platform Economy

The new Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest "provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation…

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Video AI: Motion OCR Recovery Of Damaged Text

Google's Cloud Video API is extremely capable at recovering even highly degraded onscreen text from television news broadcasts. Historically, OCR…

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Video AI: The Trade-offs Of Translating Frame-Level Annotations Into Per-Second Aggregations

Video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API typically annotate video content at the level of the individual frame, reporting…

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New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?

The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…

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WashPost: Their 2018 Win Was Historic. What Have These Democrats Accomplished?

The Washington Post's look at the 2018 freshman House class includes a look at how much media coverage key members…

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Recovering Degraded Onscreen Text From Television News: Deepwater Horizon

Yesterday we showed how Google's Cloud Video API was able to seamlessly identify onscreen Arabic text in an ABC Evening…

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Multilingual OCR From Evening Television News: Arabic On ABC

As we explore how deep learning video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API can help us reimagine how machines…

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Blocked March for Life Tweets Raise Free Speech Concerns

In the lead-up to last week’s March for Life rally, Twitter generated controversy for censoring at least two different pro-life…

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Greater Good Gathering 3.0

Kalev will be speaking at the Greater Good Gathering 3.0 next week at Columbia University on a panel alongside Director…

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Discerning Certainty Amidst Chaos: The Conflicting Cacophony Of News

One of the greatest challenges in attempting to monitor the entire planet lies in discerning certainty amidst the chaotic conflicting…

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World Bank: How Technology & Data Are Transforming Sustainable Development

Kalev spoke to the World Bank today on how GDELT's global datasets can be used to help understand global narratives…

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Identifying Contradictory Climate Change Narratives Using Cloud Natural Language & The Climate Change Narratives Dataset

Moving beyond simple Q&A about climate change, could we use Google's Cloud Natural Language API and our new Climate Change…

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Using Cloud Natural Language & The Climate Change Narratives Dataset For Q&A About Climate Change

With yesterday's massive new dataset containing the URLs and context snippets of 6.3 million English language online news articles about…

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Four Massive Datasets Charting The Global Climate Change News Narrative 2009-2020

Over the past two days we have released a set of four massive new datasets designed to fundamentally advance the…

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A New Contextual Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives: 6.3M English News URLs With Contextual Snippets 2015-2020

We are tremendously excited today to announce the fourth in our series of climate change narrative datasets, covering television, linguistics and…

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Can 'Cahoots' Be Anything Other Than 'In Cahoots'?

The Wall Street Journal's Ben Zimmer yesterday traced how the word "cahoots" has evolved over time, noting among other things…