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Vox: Scott Pruitt Is Mired In Scandals – But You Wouldn't Know It From Watching Fox News
Vox's Alvin Chang explores how the networks are covering news about Scott Pruitt. Read The Full Article.
Hannity’s Phone-Smashing Rhetoric Heads In A Different Direction
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores Hannity's coverage of a Clinton staffer's phone smashing. Read The Full Article.
Merging Billions of URLS Using BigQuery
One of the most amazing things about Google's BigQuery service is its nearly infinite scalability and the sheer speed at…
RealClearPolitics: Stealth Editing & Transparency: Why Archiving Fact Checks Is Vital
Kalev's latest RealClearPolitics piece examines why it is so imperative to permit web archiving of fact checks for transparency and…
WashPost: Here's How Much More Cable And Broadcast News Talked About Roseanne Than Puerto Rico
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how the networks covered Roseanne versus Puerto Rico. Read The Full Article.
Vox: How The Media Ignored Puerto Rico, In One Chart
Vox's Alvin Chang explores how the networks covered the Puerto Rico crisis. Read The Full Article.
Merriam Webster Definition Examples
Merriam Webster's legendary dictionary now uses sentences from two of Kalev's Forbes columns to illustrate common literary usage for two…
Vox: The Stories Fox News Covers Obsessively – And Those It Ignores – In Charts
Vox' Albert Chang published another fantastic data-driven analysis of the parallel media universes using the Television Explorer. Read The Full…
Using GDELT Summary To Track Wildlife Crime
One of the most powerful features of GDELT Summary is the ability it gives you to search across the world's languages,…
IU: Visualizing Our Global World: Correlation Between Article Tone and Emotion of Accompanying Images
A team of Indiana University students (Elizabeth Supinski, Hui Chen, Rusty Hann and Ding Li) explored the relationship of textual…
GDELT Source Lookup: Outlet Formal Names And Icons
When displaying human-friendly results based on GDELT's data, its often useful to show the formal name of a news outlet…
DOC 2.0 Updates: 1.5 Year Searching And Updated Mobile Interface
It was just this past January that the DOC 2.0 API was extended from searching just the last three months of…
Mapping The Hidden Geography Of Language Through The News
Combining fulltext geocoding with the power of the cloud we can transform 126 billion words of news coverage from a…
Mapping The Geography Of Words Through A Year Of Global News
Having spent more than a decade mapping the world through the lens of textual geography, we've become fascinated with the…
myPersonality And Is Facebook's New Privacy Stance Putting It On A Collision Course With Academia?
Even as Facebook takes steps to reign in mass academic harvesting of private user data, those efforts are running up…
Mapping News Outlets: How Different Data Gives Different Perspectives
When mapping the locations of the world’s news outlets, the difference between geographic focus and geographic location offers a powerful…
The Problem With Using AI To Fight Terrorism On Social Media
Social media has a terrorism problem, but the platforms’ overreliance on AI is blinding them, public confusion and lack of…
Online Continuous-Time Tensor Factorization Based on Pairwise Interactive Point Processes
GDELT is used as one of the datasets being analyzed in a paper titled "Online Continuous-Time Tensor Factorization Based on…
Mapping The Media: A Geographic Lookup Of GDELT's Sources
Given GDELT's incredibly unique ability to peer across the world's languages courtesy of its mass machine translation infrastructure, a common…
Mapping The 2015-2018 Media Geography In One Line of SQL
In 2015 we created a map of the geography of the world's media as seen through a year of GDELT's…
Geographic FeatureID To Common Name Crosswalk May 2018 Update
While we tend to think of geographic locations as having just one name, in reality they can have dozens or…
Using BigQuery To Make A 38 Year Timeline Of World Conflict From Half A Billion Records In 3 Seconds
Three years ago we showed off the results of a singularly incredible BigQuery query, courtesy of the one and only…
WashPost: What Elected Officials Are Talking About Vs. What's On Cable News
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the differences in what politicians are talking about versus what cable television news is…
What Facebook's Security Double Standard Tells Us About How It Views User Privacy
In the aftermath of accusations a Facebook security employee was misusing his access to stalk women, it turns out the…