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Decentralized Socio-Technical Services And Applications For The Internet of Things – A Testbed Self-Integration
A fascinating IoT testbed architecture using GDELT's data feeds, by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Leeds. Read…
BBVA: Coronavirus Sentiment & Geo-World: Conflict & Protest January 2020
BBVA's latest global risk report includes a unique map of global media reaction to the coronavirus threat: The coronavirus hits…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
Greater Good Gathering 3.0 At Columbia University
Kalev spoke today at the Good Gathering 3.0 held at Columbia University alongside a list of speakers including Robin Chase,…
WSJ: How AI Spotted And Tracked The Coronavirus Outbreak
The Wall Street Journal covers how BlueDot Global's machine learning algorithms sifted the earliest mentions of the Coronavirus from GDELT's…
Born Out Of The 2014 Ebola Epidemic GDELT's Mass Translation Infrastructure Helped BlueDot Identify 2019's Coronavirus
On March 13, 2014, GDELT's global monitoring infrastructure detected the first local media reports of what would go on to…
MARISA GDELT Mapping Service
An interesting visual from the MARISA maritime analysis service. View The Full Tweet Read More About The Project.
Using BigQuery DML & External Temporary Table Querying For Realtime Updates
Over the coming weeks GDELT's television-related BigQuery tables will begin loading data live as it is processed (as it rolls…
BlueDot's Alerting System Sent One Of The Earliest Coronavirus Alerts
BlueDot Global has long used GDELT to track global news coverage of disease outbreaks across the world, feeding GDELT's results…
What Google's Cloud Video AI Sees Watching Decade Of Television News: The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0
UPDATE (8/7/2020): Thanks to a Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant to the Media-Data Research Consortium, this dataset has been vastly…
WashPost: Fox News Begins And Ends Its Super Bowl Coverage The Same Way: Getting Trump's Back
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at the political discourse in Fox News' Super Bowl coverage. Read The Full Article.
China Mentions Map
An interesting visualization of geographic connections with China: View The Full Tweet.
Enhanced 'Last 72 Hours' Option For Television Explorer
As researchers and journalists are increasingly using the Television Explorer to track coverage of and reaction to fast-moving events, there…
Leeds: A Global Struggle: Worker Protest In The Platform Economy
The new Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest "provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation…
Video AI: Motion OCR Recovery Of Damaged Text
Google's Cloud Video API is extremely capable at recovering even highly degraded onscreen text from television news broadcasts. Historically, OCR…
Video AI: The Trade-offs Of Translating Frame-Level Annotations Into Per-Second Aggregations
Video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API typically annotate video content at the level of the individual frame, reporting…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
WashPost: Their 2018 Win Was Historic. What Have These Democrats Accomplished?
The Washington Post's look at the 2018 freshman House class includes a look at how much media coverage key members…
Recovering Degraded Onscreen Text From Television News: Deepwater Horizon
Yesterday we showed how Google's Cloud Video API was able to seamlessly identify onscreen Arabic text in an ABC Evening…
Multilingual OCR From Evening Television News: Arabic On ABC
As we explore how deep learning video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API can help us reimagine how machines…
Blocked March for Life Tweets Raise Free Speech Concerns
In the lead-up to last week’s March for Life rally, Twitter generated controversy for censoring at least two different pro-life…
Greater Good Gathering 3.0
Kalev will be speaking at the Greater Good Gathering 3.0 next week at Columbia University on a panel alongside Director…
Discerning Certainty Amidst Chaos: The Conflicting Cacophony Of News
One of the greatest challenges in attempting to monitor the entire planet lies in discerning certainty amidst the chaotic conflicting…
World Bank: How Technology & Data Are Transforming Sustainable Development
Kalev spoke to the World Bank today on how GDELT's global datasets can be used to help understand global narratives…