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Seeing The World Through The Eyes Of Others: Mass Machine Translation
Imagine a world without language barriers, where anyone can access real-time information from anywhere in the world in any language,…
New GDELT Keynote And Paired Half Day Workshop Available In January
We’re tremendously excited to announce that we will be debuting in January a paired keynote and half day workshop covering…
Television And Geography As Big Data: Mapping A Decade Of Television News
When we begin to think of television as data and geography as a lens through which to explore it, we…
Should Social Media Be Held Responsible For The Atrocities And Deaths It Facilitates?
As social media is increasingly used to facilitate horrific activities across the world, should the companies behind those platforms bear…
If Social Media Algorithms Control Our Lives Why Can't They Eliminate Hate Speech?
Are the vaunted algorithms that power social media not nearly as powerful as we believe? Or if they are, why…
Animating The Geography Of Television News 2009-2018
Earlier this week we created a series of maps visualizing the geography of American and British television news through the…
WashPost: Cable News Networks Spend Far More Time Talking About Hurricanes Than Wildfires
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how television news pays far more attention to hurricanes than it does wild fires….
Mapping The Geography Of Television News 2009-2018
Nearly half a decade ago one of the first major visualizations we created using the Internet Archive's Television News Archive…
Mapping the Linguistic Geography Of GDELT: 2015-2018
In 2015 we created a map of the linguistic geography of Planet Earth as seen through the eyes of GDELT….
Mapping The Geography Of GDELT: 2015-2018
In 2015 we created a map of the world as seen through the eyes GDELT. This original map examined just…
A Global Cooccurrence Network Of Cities 2015-2018
Three years ago we asked what it would look like to create a massive global network visualization that shows how…
Is It Time To Move From Web Hosting Companies To The Cloud?
As the commercial cloud has come to revolutionize how the modern web is built, perhaps the ultimate answer is for…
Is It Time To Give Up On Using Humans For Tech Support?
Machines are getting better and better at understanding human conversation at the same time human technical support staffing appears to…
The Perils to Democracy Posed by Big Tech
A look at how Silicon Valley's obsession with censorship of ideas over moderation of expression has led to a dangerous…
Zuckerberg's Manifesto And Our Algorithmically Controlled Future
As Facebook increasingly reorients its company towards an AI future in which algorithms make all decisions across the site, what…
Do Algorithms Really Control Society?
For all its vaunted technological might and all its claims that its behavioral engineering algorithms can readily nudge its users…
How Facebook Changed From Utopian To Orwellian
As the curtain is gradually pulled back on the workings of Silicon Valley’s social behemoths we are increasingly seeing that…
Acosta and the Intern: A Media Double Standard?
A look at how media coverage of the interaction between CNN's Jim Acosta and the young female White House intern…
Today's Deep Learning "AI" Is Machine Learning Not Magic
Even the best AI tools are more artistry than science, require reams of carefully curated data from which they inherit…
We Need Software That Doesn't Panic When Sensors Malfunction
Software systems ultimately hinge on their ability to accurately observe the outside world through sensors, but when they fail, algorithms…
Google Developers Experts Summit 2018
Kalev was in Sunnyvale this past weekend at the Google Developers Experts Summit 2018. It is amazing to see just…
WashPost: The Caravan Has All But Vanished From Cable News
The Washington Post's Philip Bump shows how "the caravan" has largely faded from television news coverage. Read The Full Article.
Estonia's Online Voting Would Solve A Lot Of Our Election Problems
Just imagine the American government of the future if the engineers that brought us the modern web spent a little…
The Truth Is That We Really Don't Know If There Was Social Media Election Interference
The gatekeepers that silently and opaquely control everything we see and say online, now control our understanding of just how…