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A Look Around The World At How News Websites Are Adopting Google's AMP HTML
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the news industry is evolving in a "mobile first" web and maps the spread…
Television As Data: Mapping 6 Years of American Television News
Kalev's latest Forbes piece maps the last six years of American television as seen through the Internet Archive's Television News…
The Democratization Of Big Data Is A Big Win For Democracy
Google's cloud big data and machine learning blog features a post by Felipe Hoffa that features an analysis using GDELT….
Mapping The Spread Of Google's AMP Mobile Pages
Beginning April 22, 2016 GDELT began monitoring all articles for Google AMP HTML and Mobile alternate URLs and recording this…
An Animated Daily Map Of American Television News 2009-2016
Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a city/landmark-level animation mapping every location on earth mentioned at least 3 or more times in a given…
A City-Level Look At 6 Years Of American Television
Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a city/landmark-level map visualizing the every location on earth mentioned at least 5 or more…
Choropleth Mapping 6 Years of American Television
Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a choropleth map visualizing the total number of times each country in the world has…
Alex Bresler's gdeltr2 Package
Alex Bresler created this truly fantastic R package called "gdeltr2" that offers a powerful set of R interfaces to an ever-growing…
Strata + Hadoop World Keynote Global Happiness Map
Attendee Walid Mehanna tweeted this fantastic image of Jordan Tigani's Strata + Hadoop World keynote that featured, among other topics,…
GDELT Featured In Strata + Hadoop World Keynote
In his keynote presentation at Strata + Hadoop World in London two weeks ago, Jordan Tigani featured how GDELT is…
Google Cloud Platform Global User Conference NEXT 2016
GDELT was mentioned briefly during the "DATA & ANALYTICS: Pushing the Limits of BigQuery" session at the Google Cloud Platform Global…
Are Research Ethics Obsolete In The Era Of Big Data?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the changing landscape of ethics in the big data world. Read the Full Article.
Does More Data Really Lead To Better Decision Making?
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how simply having more data does not automatically lead to better decisions being made. Read…
Will AI And Robots Make Humans Obsolete?
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how AI and robotics are taking over human society. Read the Full Article.
Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the changing landscape of publishing in the digital era. Stanford University's Law Library even excerpted…
Are We All Turning Into Digital Zombies? Or Will AI Save Us?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how technology is turning us into digital zombies and how AI may pull us…
Could We Ever Have A Truly Free Internet?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores whether we could ever truly have a free Internet. Read the Full Article.
Why We Need More Domain Experts In The Data Sciences
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the dangerous gap between the producers and consumers of data sciences today and why…
Are Corporate Data Centers Obsolete In The Cloud Era?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how the commercial cloud has upended and revolutionized how computing is done. Read the…
WATSON, GDELT, Jigsaw etc
Tiffany Trofino, Principle Strategist at IBM, wrote recently on LinkedIn about the future of using data for understanding global conflict….
Here’s the data that told us Bernie Sanders would lose
Putting together data from the television tracker, Cloud Vision analysis of political imagery, and Jordan and Felipe's talk from Google…
Using Google's Deep Learning To Model Visual Portrayal In The News
With the debut of the GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG), which uses Google's Cloud Vision API deep learning algorithms to…
Bayesian Poisson Tucker Decomposition for Learning the Structure of International Relations
Researchers Aaron Schein (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mingyuan Zhou (University of Texas at Austin), David Blei (Columbia University) and Hanna Wallach…
NGramming 9.5 Billion Words of Arabic News
One of the amazing things that happens when you monitor the world at GDELT's scale is that you begin to…