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VGKG: Master Ranked List Of 22.5 Million Web Entities From Half A Billion Global News Images 2017-2019

GDELT's Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) added the output of Google Cloud Vision API's "Web Detection" capability on March 13, 2017,…

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Constructing Trillion-Cooccurrence Graphs In BigQuery With A Single SQL Query

Earlier today we demonstrated the construction of a semantic graph representing 24.5-billion entity co-occurrences from the 11 billion entity annotations…

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A Global Cooccurrence Network Of Cities 2015-2019

In 2016 we visualized a year of the co-occurrence geography of the world's cities using a single line of SQL…

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Visualizing Entity Networks Through The GEG: BigQuery, Gephi & Cloud Natural Language API

What would it look like to visualize the co-occurrences of the 11 billion entities from more than 100 million English…

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The Top Entities By Day Using BigQuery And The Cloud Natural Language API Through The GEG

The GDELT Global Entity Graph (GEG) dataset of 11 billion entities extracted by Google's Cloud Natural Language API from 103…

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Querying The New Global Entity Graph (GEG) Datasets In BigQuery: Example Queries

Both the neural GEG (based on Google's Cloud Natural Language API) and classical GEG (based on a traditional HMM POS…

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Announcing The Global Entity Graph’s (GEG) G1 Baseline Dataset: 8 Billion Entities From 2019

Today we are excited to announce the GDELT Global Entity Graph’s (GEG) second release: the G1 Baseline Dataset, a dataset…

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TV News' Impeachment Focus Overtaken by Syria

Impeachment has dominated news coverage of the Trump presidency in recent weeks, but the administration’s pullout from northern Syria and…

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'Columbus Day' Versus 'Indigenous People's Day' In The Media

Is it "Columbus Day" or is it "Indigenous People's Day"? The timeline below shows the percentage of combined airtime on…

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FiveThirtyEight: Warren Has Recently Been Mentioned More On Fox News Than Other Networks

FiveThirtyEight's weekly roundup of media coverage of the 2020 race. Read The Full Article.

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Tracing The Entrance Of 'Clapping Back' Into The Popular Lexicon

The phrase "clapped back" seems to be on the rise in the media today, but when did it first gain…

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In An Ever More Surveilled World We're Not Talking About Surveillance Any More Than We Used To

In an ever more surveilled world, it is interesting to note that media coverage of "surveillance" is not increasing and,…

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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…

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A Full 70% Of Trump Coverage The Last Two Weeks Focused On Ukraine, Impeachment Or Syria

Donald Trump's presidency the last two weeks has been defined by three major stories: Ukraine, impeachment and his greenlighting of…

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The Specter Of A No-Deal Brexit Back In The News

Last month the percentage of both BBC News London and worldwide online news coverage of Brexit that mentioned the so-called…

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Media's Trump Focus Shifts From Impeachment To Syria

It seems the media's focus on President Trump has shifted over the last few days, with coverage of impeachment waning…

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Extinction Rebellion's Rise Coincides With Steadily Increasing Media Coverage Of Climate Change

Media coverage of climate change continues its upwards trend over 2019. Interestingly, while it begins to take off in July…

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'Extinction Rebellion' Continues To Garner Headlines

Just under a year since it first rocketed into the media spotlight, the Extinction Rebellion anti-climate change movement continues to…

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BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Protest September 2019

BBVA's September 2019 Geo-World: Conflict & Protest report summarizes the state of global conflict and civil unrest. Read The Full…

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Announcing The Global Entity Graph (GEG) Neural Sentiment Dataset

UPDATE (1/21/2020): The GEG neural sentiment scores are now integrated into the core GEG dataset instead of a separate dataset….

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FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?

FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.

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Announcing The Global Entity Graph (GEG) And A New 11 Billion Entity Dataset

Today we are tremendously excited to unveil the GDELT Global Entity Graph (GEG) and its inaugural release GEG-GCNLAPI, a dataset…

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Global Media Attention Returning To The Hong Kong Protests

After more than a month of steadily declining media interest in the Hong Kong protests, it seems September 29th was…

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Trump's Election Brought 'Deep State' Into The Media Lexicon

It seems the election of Donald Trump brought a new term into the media lexicon: "deep state." From the month…