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Facebook Keeps Saying 'Trust Us': Is It Finally Time To Say No More?
Facebook’s unblinking algorithms silently shape what we see and say without us having any right to understand the rules they…
Towards Data Science: Machine Learning Platform for Data Analysis
A pilot exploration of bitcoin price prediction with technical stack details. Read The Full Article.
Predicting Community Engagement On Reddit Using TensorFlow, GDELT, And Cloud Dataflow: Part 3
Google's Sergei Sokolenko, Cloud Dataflow Product Manager, wrote this fantastic tutorial showcasing how to predict community engagement on Reddit around…
WashPost: The more important woman in the news recently? Hillary Clinton — at least at Fox
The Washington Post's Philip Bump uses the Television Explorer to compare coverage of Stormy Daniels versus Hillary Clinton on the…
Vox: How Fox News turned the March for Our Lives into an attack on the 2nd Amendment
Vox's Alvin Chang uses the Television Explorer to compare how the different networks covered the "March for Our Lives" event….
Facebook's Response To Its Phone Record Harvesting Shows Nothing Has Changed
Facebook's tone deaf response to its harvesting of phone records, that it is our fault for giving it permission without…
Could AI Bots Replace Human Tech Support?
The sad state of frontline tech support raises the question of whether AI bots could take it all over and…
What The New Google Maps Game API Says About Data As A Platform And The Future Of The Cloud
Google’s new augmented reality platform wraps up its massive database of 100 million 3D objects and 25 million daily updates,…
Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Inventory Sheet With Charset And Language Breakdown
NOTE (9/1/2019): A new version of this linguistic inventory sheet is available with better accuracy and coverage for all site…
A First Look At Three Weeks Of The Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Through BigQuery
The newest addition to the GDELT family, the GDELT 3.0 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) has been running every hour for…
AI Already Controls What We See Online, Should It Also Control What We Say?
Silicon Valley is becoming increasingly enamored of the idea of using AI to proactively delete “offensive” speech before it is…
Business For Breakfast Interview On Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Story
Kalev's interview with Jimmy Sengenberger's Business for Breakfast aired today about the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story. Listen To The Interview.
Voice Of America Interview On Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Story
Kalev's interview with Voice of America's International Edition aired today about the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story.
Vox: Fox News Really Doesn't Want To Say “Trump” And “Porn Star” On Air
Vox's Alvin Chang explores how the major networks are covering the Stormy Daniels story. Read The Full Article.
Sky News Interview On Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Story
Kalev was interviewed on Sky News this morning about the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story.
From MasterMind To Misuse In Four Years: Who Owns Our Data?
The Cambridge Analytica story misses just how much Facebook data has already been harvested by companies and academics, the number…
Holistic Representations for Memorization and Inference
Yunpu Ma (LMU/Siemens AG), Marcel Hildebrandt (LMU/Siemens AG), Stephan Baier (LMU) and Volker Tresp (LMU/Siemens AG) presented "Holistic Representations for…
Predicting Community Engagement On Reddit Using TensorFlow, GDELT, And Cloud Dataflow: Part 2
Google's Sergei Sokolenko, Cloud Dataflow Product Manager, wrote this fantastic tutorial showcasing how to predict community engagement on Reddit around…
Predicting Community Engagement On Reddit Using TensorFlow, GDELT, And Cloud Dataflow: Part 1
Google's Sergei Sokolenko, Cloud Dataflow Product Manager, wrote this fantastic tutorial showcasing how to predict community engagement on Reddit around…
How Fox News Made Andrew McCabe A “Deep State” Villain
Vox's Alvin Chang uses the Television Explorer to examine how the networks covered the Andrew McCabe story and especially Fox…
WashPost: Up To Speed On The Stormy Daniels Story?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump uses the Television Explorer to examine how each network has been covering the Stormy Daniels…
CTV Interview On Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Story
Kalev was interviewed twice on CTV this evening about the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story. See The Video.
Why Are We Only Now Talking About Facebook And Elections?
Four years ago Obama's campaign was lauded as "masterminds" for harvesting Facebook friend lists to build digital profiles for voter…
The Problem Isn't Cambridge Analytica: It's Facebook
Cambridge Analytica stands accused of nothing more than what academics do every day: if society has concerns about how their…