Author: Kalev Leetaru
The Zika Virus And How Algorithms And Media Effects Impact Our Understanding Of Global Issues
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how media effects and algorithms affect what we understand of the world around us,…
Why The Web Is So Slow And What It Tells Us About The Future Of Online Journalism
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the state of online journalism and uses some of the diagnostic tools built into…
Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) February 2016 Snapshot Dataset
Given the enormous interest we've been receiving in the new GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG), which processes an ever-growing fraction…
Aftenposten Features Candidate Television Tracker
Lorns Bjerkan writes for Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, about American television coverage of Donald Trump using GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker,…
Columbia Journalism Review Features Candidate Tracker
David Uberti recently wrote for the Columbia Journalism Review using GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet…
VGKG 1.0 Now Processing All Monitored News Imagery
We're tremendously excited to announce that as of GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) 1.0, we are now processing both the…
VGKG 1.0 Arabic, Persian, Thai, Chinese And Script OCR
As we noted on Saturday, with the release of the Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) 1.0, we are now passing language…
GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) V1.0 Available
We're excited to announce that as of late yesterday afternoon, Version 1.0 of the GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is…
How Fragile Are Our Cities?
The Igarapé Institute teamed up with the United Nations University, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and SecDev, with support from…
IRIN News: Why Does No One Care About Yemen?
IRIN News published a feature earlier today exploring how the Yemen conflict has largely faded from global media attention and…
Shorouk News Features Candidate Television Tracker: Bernie Sanders
Mohammed Minshawi writes for Shorouk News, a prominent Arabic language newspaper published in Egypt, about Bernie Sanders and uses GDELT's 2016…
Announcing the American Television Global Knowledge Graph (TV-GKG)
We are enormously excited to announce today the unveiling of our latest massive new dataset: the American Television Global Knowledge…
Georgetown University Wizard of Big Data Video
From 2013-2014 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru was the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence of International Values, Communications Technology & the Global…
Emotions of American Television 2009-2016 Dataset
For those of you interested in building your own visualizations or analytic models of the emotional undercurrents of American television…
Visualizing The Emotions of American Television News 2009-2016
Back in October 2014 we released a massive dataset and interactive visualization of the emotional undercurrents of American domestic television applying…
Candidate Television Emotions Bulk Dataset
For those of you wishing to integrate all of the emotional data from the 2016 Campaign Television Emotions Tracker into polling,…
Announcing the 2016 Campaign Television Emotions Tracker
It is with tremendous excitement that we unveil today the new 2016 Campaign Television Emotions Tracker! Building on the extraordinary…
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…