Author: Kalev Leetaru
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…
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…