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Announcing A Massive New Geographic News Database Of The Locations Mentioned In Covid-19 News Coverage
Last month we created a map of the top locations on earth most commonly mentioned in worldwide online news coverage…
BlueDot's December 31st Covid-19 Warning Matches NSC's Early Warning
Reuters' chronology of the early days of the US Government's response to Covid-19 includes this fascinating detail: "The [NSC] was…
Global Mentions Of 'Rationing' Took Off At The Beginning Of March
Globally, online news mentions of rationing soared in early March. Live Version. Look back a decade through television news, mentions…
Fauci And Birx Getting More Media Attention While CDC Fades
The CDC and its director unsurprisingly emerged as the early media go-to's of the Covid-19 pandemic, surging into the headlines…
Covid-19 Pandemic Massively Outpacing Coverage Of Syria, Locusts Or Ebola
American television news stations have run wall-to-wall coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, using data from the Internet Archive's Television…
African Locust Swarms Receive Little Attention
As locust swarms devastate agricultural production and livelihoods across Africa, the media has paid little attention. American television news, as…
Fox News Continues To Draw Attention To Hydroxychloroquine
The White House popularized Hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for Covid-19, despite minimal evidence of its efficacy. On television news,…
Comparing News And Google Trends Search Volume For California Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies
Using a forthcoming extended version of the geographic database underlying the GEO 2.0 API, we wanted to explore how news…
New York Post Editorial Board: Pandemic Watch: No, Docs Weren't Prophets
The New York Post's Editorial Board cited Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of the chronology of public statements about Covid-19 by national…
Virus Experts' Early Statements Belie 'Prescient' Portrayal
As predictions of the coronavirus’ impact have grown more dire and the White House has belatedly acknowledged the pathogen’s repercussions…
Anxiety-Related Language Soars In Global Online News Since Late February
This past October we showcased using the Web News Ngrams dataset to measure global anxiety using a single BigQuery query…
Visualizing The Entity Graph Around 'Shortages' And Covid-19
Following the incredible graph BBVA created of co-occurring organization names in Covid-19 coverage, we've constructed the graph below of co-occurring…
Visualizing Entity Co-Occurrences In Covid-19 Coverage Using The Natural Language API
What might the Global Entity Graph tell us about the co-occurrence network of entities mentioned in coverage of Covid-19, as…
Even April Fool's Day Succumbs To Covid-19
The timeline below plots online news coverage of April Fool's since January 2017, showing this year's coverage was half the…
What The Data Tell Us About Impeachment As Virus Distraction
Mitch McConnell suggested this week that the U.S. government’s delayed response to the coronavirus pandemic could be traced back, in…
Global News Mentions Of "Supply Chains" Soar
Across the world, global online news coverage volume mentioning "supply chain" or "supply chains" is soaring: Live Version. On television…
Medical Imagery On Evening Television News Surging
The total airtime of ABC, CBS and NBC's evening news broadcasts devoted to depictions of medical imagery have soared in…
Searching For Global News Images Of Masks Using The Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG)
Since December 2015, GDELT's Visual Global Knowledge Graph has analyzed more than half a billion worlwide news images through Google's…
Using BigQuery's New Limit-Free DML To Create Our Covid 19 Snippet Datasets
Over the past week and a half we've released two massive new datasets of news snippets (television news and online…
A Look At GDELT's Open AI Datasets: Video, Imagery, Speech And Natural Language Understanding
GDELT has been an early alpha user of many of Google's Cloud AI offerings, exploring how the rapidly advancing world…
Covid-19 Beats Ebola, Vaping and The Opioid Epidemic On Television News
Using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the Covid-19 pandemic has eclipsed the Ebola outbreak in mentions, while…
Fox News Covered Opioid Epidemic The Most
While mentions of the opioid epidemic have been largely displaced by the intense discourse surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, the graph…
Explore Centuries Of National Parks And Landscapes Through Book Images
Explore the beauty of America's national parks, including special collections like Yellowstone, as well as parks and landscapes in general…
Explore The Visual World Of Emblem Books
Explore digitized emblem books from the Internet Archive's collections through this book image collection compiled in 2014. View.