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IRIN: Hurricane versus Monsoon

IRIN's Ben Parker created this great set of infographics tracing American and international media coverage of Hurricane Harvey in the…

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When The Cloud Deletes Our Data: Who "Owns" What We Upload?

How Staple’s insourcing of its cloud printing platform led many of its customers to lose everything they had created and…

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Walmart Vs Amazon And Why Cloud Expertise Makes Or Breaks E-Commerce

To compete in today’s e-commerce world requires an innate understanding of cloud computing and reacting to outages and interruptions in…

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2017 International Conference On Humanitarian And Development Assistance To The DPRK

The proceedings of the 2017 International Conference On Humanitarian And Development Assistance To The DPRK, held at the Korea Press…

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GDELT 2.0 APIs Reach 20 Million Queries!

In just the the two short months since the GDELT DOC 2.0 API and GDELT GEO 2.0 API debuted, they…

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Alex Bresler's Introduction to Programming with gdeltr2

Alex Bresler, the creator of the fantastic "gdeltr2" package, has put together this powerful tutorial that walks through how to…

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Internet Archive Blog: Trump Eclipses Sun On TV

The Internet Archive's latest blog post uses the Television Explorer to show that, at least on American television news, Trump…

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"Gallery Mode" Now Available in DOC 2.0 API

We're incredibly excited to announce today the release of our new "Gallery Mode" for the GDELT DOC 2.0 API,which allows…

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Big Data at BBVA Research using GDELT+BigQuery

Tomasa Rodrigo Lopez from BBVA Research presented at Google Next Madrid this past June 8th on how they are using…

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HTTPS Now Available For Selected GDELT APIs And Services

As GDELT's APIs and visualization tools are increasingly being embedded on websites and integrated into online workflows, many of you…

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Internet Archive Blog: North Korea's "Fire and Fury"

Earlier today the Internet Archive used the Television Explorer to examine how the major television networks covered President Trump's "fire…

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How Minimizing Cyber Risk Can Actually Increase It

As web hosting companies look to help their customers improve their cyber security postures, they need to separate future potential…

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Kalev Now RealClear Media Fellow

We are tremendously excited to announce today that Kalev is a RealClear Media Fellow! The Editor's Note in his inaugural…

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What Data-Mining TV's Political Coverage Tells Us

Kalev's first piece for RealClear Politics looks back at the last two years of his collaborations with the Internet Archive's…

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How Web Archives Teach Us That Data Doesn't Exist In A Vacuum

As data science has gone mainstream, much of it has focused on blindly asking questions of data without ever stopping…

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Can An AI Algorithm Copyright What It Creates?

As AI systems become more and more advanced, will we reach a point where they themselves can copyright and own…

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Is Social Media Really A Public Space?

As politicians increasingly turn to social platforms to communicate with, and sometimes block, their constituents, how might these platforms reshape…

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In The Digital Era If It Hasn't Been Digitized Does It Even Exist?

As the world’s knowledge is increasingly mediated through computers, from fulltext search to online catalogs, will our non-digitized past fade…

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The Internet Made Information Free: Now It Has Come For Academic Research

A new study suggests that as much as two-thirds of contemporary research is now available for free download from Sci-Hub…

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From Subject To Soundbite, Results To Hype: Communicating Data Science

As data science goes mainstream, there is an increasing emphasis on focusing on the size of the data analyzed and…

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Should Open Access And Open Data Come With Open Ethics?

Despite growing calls for openness in academia from open access to open data, the focus to date has been on…

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The Sad Drowning Of Steve The Robot And The Future Of Robotic Rights

A security robot drowned this week in Washington – what does his watery demise portend for the future of robotic…

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Why We Need To Archive The Web In Order To Preserve Twitter

As much as 70% of the links found in tweets aren’t being preserved in our web archives, meaning that up…

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IJEBM: Big Data Analysis Of Economic News: Hints To Forecast Macroeconomic Indicators

This study by Mohammed Elshendy and Andrea Fronzetti Colladon examines macroeconomic indicator forecasting using GDELT: We propose a novel method…