Author: Kalev Leetaru
Using BigQuery To Explore Large Log Files: Exploring the Wayback Machine
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what is really in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the nuance and biases of…
How Much of the Internet Does The Wayback Machine Really Archive?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which turns 20 years old next year and holds…
When Our Televisions Watch Us In Our Homes
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the rise of the "surveillance economy" and how last week's revelations about Vizio televisions…
Complex Queries: Combining Events, EventMentions, and GKG
A common request revolves around filtering events to just those mentioned in articles that focus on certain themes or groups….
Latest Internet Archive Television & Politics Visualizations: November 2015
By popular request, we've compiled a roundup of the latest Television & Politics visualizations we've been creating in collaboration with…
IRIN News: Paris vs Kenya Attacks (Terror Around The World)
Due to the high volume of misreports and sharing on social media that the Garissa attack occurred last week, rather than…
Online Social Networks And Offline Protests
A new paper by Zachary C Steinert-Threlkeld, Delia Mocanu, Alessandro Vespignani, and James Fowler of the Department of Political Science at…
TV Networks Shortchanging Ted Cruz
Jim Tankersley's article for the Washington Post uses our interactive campaign 2016 television tracker to compare television attention and polling…
Visualizing The Global Influencer Network
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the connections that defined 2015 by constructing a network diagram over the people mentioned in…
Who's Connected To Whom In The Global Media
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes constructs a global influencer network of the top 100,000 pairs of newsmakers mentioned most frequently…
Why We Need To Verify Our Big Data Results
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how triangulating word patterns drawn from the Google Books ngram viewer against those from the…
One-Click Network Visualization With BigQuery+Gephi
For his latest Forbes piece, Kalev took a network visualization developed by the BBVA Research Emerging Markets Unit of how…
Visualizing Russian Sanctions and China's Economic Slowdown
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes builds upon the work of the BBVA Research Emerging Markets Unit to explore the state of…
Is The Era of Reader Comments On News Websites Fading?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the changing landscape of how citizens engage and interaction with the news media, from…
Graph-Based Detection of Occupy Protests
This paper by Fengcai Qiao, Pei Li, Jingsheng Deng, Zhaoyun Ding, and Hui Wang of the College of Information Systems…
How Drones Are Changing Humanitarian Disaster Response
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how drones are changing the humanitarian disaster response landscape and presents a vision of…
Digitizing The World's Libraries Using Smartphones
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how we could leverage advances in smartphone technology and crowd sourcing to collaboratively digitize…
San Francisco 2015 Ad Viewer Experiment
In keeping with our Philadelphia 2014 experiment from this past July, we have released a similar viewer for a selection…
Network Diagram of David Cameron
John Swain made this interesting visualization of people mentioned in conjunction with David Cameron over the last 12 months using…
How The Internet Of Things Is Reshaping The Cyber Battleground
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the current landscape of cyberwarfare and charts out a vision of what the cyber…
Analyzing The Third GOP Debate And Insights Into Television's Role In Politics
Kalev's analysis for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage examined television coverage of the third GOP debate and evolving trends over…
IRIN News: Waking up to the refugee issue in Europe
In their latest GDELT visualization, IRIN News looks at coverage of the refugee crisis over 2015 broken down by country…
IRIN News: Germany, Refugees, News Tone, and Search Trends
IRIN News' latest GDELT analysis compares the average tone of Germany news coverage of the refugee crisis against Google Trends…
Mapping at Infinite Scale: Terascale and Petascale Cartography and Big Data in the BigQuery Era
This past Saturday, on Halloween, the GDELT 2.0 Global Knowledge Graph reached 150 million articles in 65 languages from just…