Continue Reading

Impact Of Trump's Promotion Of Unproven COVID-19 Treatments And Subsequent Internet Trends: Observational Study

A fascinating paper by Kacper Niburski1 and Oskar Niburski explores the connection between President Trump's promotion of COVID-19 treatments and…

Continue Reading

Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference Today

Kalev is speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference today! Learn More.

Continue Reading

The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation Today

Kalev is speaking today at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…

Continue Reading

World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers: Big Data, Big Stories: Next Month

Attend the 2020 World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers next month to hear Kalev speak about "Big Data, Big…

Continue Reading

Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference

Kalev will be speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference this week! Learn More.

Continue Reading

Television News Refocuses On The Pandemic

Mentions of the pandemic dropped off a cliff on television news in the leadup to the election, with MSNBC shifting…

Continue Reading

CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back After Biden Win

CNN's omnipresent Covid-19 dashboard all but disappeared beginning October 27th as the channel switched to its round-the-clock election news. However,…

Continue Reading

GDELT 3.0: Unified Global Crawler Fleet

Historically, GDELT has operated multiple parallel crawler fleets distributed across Google Cloud Platform's global datacenters, each dedicated to a particular…

Continue Reading

Tucker Decomposition-Based Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

This paper by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses GDELT to explore temporal knowledge completion: Knowledge graphs have…

Continue Reading

A Primer On Mis/Disinformation, Propaganda, Falsehoods And Digital Literacy

Given the growing interest in mis/disinformation, propaganda, falsehoods, deep fakes and digital literacy, we've pulled together a collection of links…

Continue Reading

GDELT 3.0 Coming Soon

We are enormously excited to announce that GDELT 3.0 is at long last in the early stages of rolling out!…

Continue Reading

Recurrent Event Network: Autoregressive Structure Inference Over Temporal Knowledge Graphs

This paper by researchers at the University of Southern California, Quebec AI Institute and the University of Montreal examines inference…

Continue Reading

The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation

Kalev will be speaking at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…

Continue Reading

Image Sharing Across The News: Social Media Site Overlap

Following from our graph of global news coverage image overlap, what would it look like to limit that graph to…

Continue Reading

Visualizing The Network Of Image Sharing Across The Global News Landscape

Each image in the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is analyzed by Google Cloud Vision API's "WebEntities" that performs the…

Continue Reading

Visual Global Knowledge Graph Expands To Coverage In All 152 Monitored Languages

Historically the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has only processed articles found in the GKG, which limited it to the 65…

Continue Reading

Global Difference Graph Covers All 152 Monitored Languages

As GDELT's transition to GDELT 3.0 accelerates, it is worth remembering that since its launch in August 2018, the Global…

Continue Reading

Visual Global Knowledge Graph Adds Image Caption, Page Title And Page Language

We're excited to announce today that the Visual Global Knowledge Graph has added three new fields to the "ImageProperties" object…

Continue Reading

The Divergent Media Profiles Of Trump And Biden Post-Election

How have the media profiles of Trump and Biden diverged since the election? Has the media's focus shifted from the…

Continue Reading

We're Talking Less About Inflation Than We Used To

As economists discuss what a Biden presidency might mean for the economy, the impact of ever-wider government spigots on inflation…

Continue Reading

We Haven't Talked About Debt Since November 2013

The three major national cable news channels have largely stopped talking about debt since November 2013. Discussion of the "national…

Continue Reading

A Look At Impeachment Talk On Television News Since Trump's Election

Within days of Donald Trump's surprise 2016 election, television news was already beginning to discuss his eventual impeachment, a topic…

Continue Reading

A Reminder That The Russia Story Began Four Weeks After The Election

White House watchers trying to divine President Trump's next move might do well to look at the timeline below, showing…

Continue Reading

WashPost: Turns Out That Media Coverage Of The Virus Wasn't Just A Ploy To Hurt Trump

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at television news coverage of the pandemic since the election. Read The Full Article.