Author: Kalev Leetaru
Television Trends Tracker For Visualizing Macro Television Trends
Just over a year and a half ago we debuted a simple visualization tool that allows you to visualize basic…
What Does Artificial Intelligence See When It Watches Political Ads?
Kalev's latest analysis for the Washington Post uses the Internet Archive's TV Political Ad Archive of 267 campaign ads airing on…
ComputerWorld: Big Data's Big Role In Humanitarian Aid
Today's ComputerWorld features an article on the growing role of big data in humanitarian response that mentions both GDELT and the…
2016 Online News Candidate Tracker Unveiled
As the perfect complement to our 2016 Television Candidate Tracker, today we are unveiling our new 2016 Campaign Online News…
Image Frames Available For Political Ad Image Analysis Pilot
We've updated Friday's dataset "Computers Watching Ads: Deep Learning Meets Campaign 2016" to include the actual image frames analyzed. Each…
2016 Television Candidate Tracker Affiliate Historical Backfiles
We have finished adding in the full historical backfiles of all affiliate stations to the 2016 Television Candidate Tracker. This…
2016 Television Candidate Tracker Updates: Affiliates
We're tremendously excited to announce the latest iteration of the 2016 Television Candidate Tracker! The biggest change is that we are…
Citizen Post Covers Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge
Citizen Post covered the winners of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, a USAID initiative implemented in partnership with the National Geographic Society,…
Computers Watching Ads: Deep Learning Meets Campaign 2016
What would it look like to have a computer watch all of the 2016 political ads using "deep learning" neural network algorithms and…
Al Arabiya Features Candidate Television Tracker
Mohammed Minshawi reports for Al Arabiya, a prominent Arabic language television station broadcast across the Middle East, about the US election…
PeaceTech Lab's New Open Situation Room Exchange (OSRx)
The PeaceTech Lab, created by the United States Institute of Peace in 2014, debuted an exciting new initiative yesterday called the…
Washington Post Features Candidate Tracker: Sanders Vs Clinton
Max Ehrenfreund's article for the Washington Post's Wonkblog features GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's…
Archiving The Journalism Of Natural Disasters
One of the papers at the Tenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference this past October focused on "Archiving the 2015 Nepal…
Smithsonian Magazine Covers Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge
Yesterday the Smithsonian Magazine released a feature story profiling five of the winners of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, a USAID initiative…
AllAfrica Covers Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge
Last week AllAfrica covered the winners of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, a USAID initiative implemented in partnership with the National…
Fortune Article On Big Data For Research Era Mentions GDELT
A article in Fortune from last month about Yahoo's latest release of another large web dataset for academic use cites…
RealClearPolitics Statistical Analysis of Trump's Earned Media
David Byler has this fantastic analysis over at RealClearPolitics that performs a fascinating statistical deep dive comparing the television media coverage…
Cairo Review Article on Egyptian Protests
An article by Amy Austin Holmes and Hussein Baoumi on The Cairo Review's Tahrir Forum uses GDELT to explore protest trends…
LA Times Features Candidate Television Tracker
The Los Angeles Times recently used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive,…
Russia Today Features Candidate Television Tracker
Russia Today recently covered GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, titling…
Daily Mail Features Candidate Television Tracker
The Daily Mail published an AFP article that used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet…
IRIN News Features Full Text Search API Image Collage In Zika Coverage
IRIN News published a feature today on the Zika virus that brings together various statistics and trends about the disease,…
Exploring GDELT Using Tableau + BigQuery
Tableau put together a great video showcasing how easy it is to use Tableau and Google BigQuery to interactively explore…
Carnegie Endowment: Egypt's Protests By the Numbers
On the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring, the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace released an analysis of protest trends…