Author: Kalev Leetaru
Experiments With Machine Translation: Loanwords
Loanwords form an often underappreciated foundation of the world's languages when it comes to news analysis, especially as they relate…
How Are Food Prices Being Covered On Television News?
A recent Fox News poll showed that 82% of respondents were "very" or "extremely" concerned about inflation and increasing prices. How is…
FiveThirtyEight: Biden's Approval Rating Isn't Bouncing Back
A new analysis by FiveThirtyEight includes this fascinating comparison of television news coverage of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan compared…
Freakonomics: Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? (Ep. 477)
Today's episode of Freakonomics references Kalev's Culturomics 2.0 work. Read The Full Transcript.
Which Are Mentioned More On Television News: Moderates Or Progressives?
Which term is mentioned the most on television news: centrists, moderates, progressives, socialists, left-wing or right-wing? The timeline below shows total mentions…
Which Senator Is Mentioned More On Television News: Manchin Or Sinema?
Which US senator is mentioned more often on television news: Joe Manchin Or Kyrsten Sinema? The timeline below shows total daily mentions…
WTO: Global Trade Rebound Beats Expectations But Marked By Regional Divergences
A new World Trade Organization (WTO) report includes a graph drawn from GDELT. Read The Full Report.
Experiments With Machine Translation: From RAM Disks To BigQuery
At the core of all machine translation systems lie data. Vast archives of monolingual and bilingual training and testing data…
Is The Reconciliation Bill Or Its Cost Being Covered More On Television News?
Which is receiving more attention on television news: the reconciliation bill or its cost? The timeline below shows total mentions of the…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Global Geography & Unexpected Places In The News
Prior to the pandemic, the city of Wuhan in China, despite a population of more than 11 million, was hardly…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Bilingual Analysis Through Monolingual Pipelines Over Translation Graphs
One of the applications we are most excited about with our new many-to-many translation graphs in Translingual 2.0 is the…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Connecting Original And Translated Text Through Many-To-Many Translation Graphs
In traditional machine translation, an entire news article is handed off as a text blob to the translation engine, which…
WashPost: The Emergence Of 'Woke' As A Pejorative Masks A Deeper Insecurity
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how the terms "critical race theory" and "woke" are being covered on television news….
How Have Approval Ratings Been Covered On Television News?
How have approval ratings been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the phrase across CNN, MSNBC and…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Expanding & Enhancing Language Detection
GDELT has long relied on CLD2 in "extended mode" to determine the language of each article it crawls, allowing it…
How Was AOC's "Tax The Rich" Dress Covered On Television News?
How was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Met Gala "tax the rich" dress covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Rare Words & Uncommon Topics
When GDELT Translingual first debuted in February 2015, we ensured that its models were able to translate every word in…
How Has The Gabby Petito Story Been Covered On Television News?
How has the Gabby Petito story been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of her and her fiance across CNN,…
NATO Strategic Communications Centre Of Excellence: Robotrolling 2021/2
The latest Robotrolling report by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre Of Excellence includes an interview with GDELT Founder Kalev Leetaru,…
The Irish Times: Coverage Of Climate Change Is Often Part Of The Problem
An opinion piece in The Irish Times references media coverage of climate change compared with other major topics. Read The…
Nature: The Small-World Network Of Global Protests
A new paper in Nature Scientific Reports uses GDELT to examine network effects in global protests: Protest diffusion is a…
PNAS: Globalization Mitigates The Risk Of Conflict Caused By Strategic Territory
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) uses GDELT as a confirmation dataset…
How Has The Debt Ceiling Been Covered On Television News?
How is the debt ceiling being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of it across CNN, MSNBC and…
Neo4j: Discover Aura Free – GDELT News Project
This demo by Neo4j showcases how to visualize and analyze portions of GDELT in Neo4j's hosted graph analytics platform. Watch…