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A City-Level Network Diagram of 2015 In One Line of SQL
What would it look like to visualize how the world's cities are connected through worldwide news reporting in 2015? Looking…
Boston Globe Features Television Tracker
The Boston Globe's David Butler and Patrick Garvin put together this visualization of the current state of television coverage of…
Mapping The Geography Of 2015 Through Massive News Mining
Kalev's latest Forbes piece looks back on 2015 through the nearly 200 million articles in the GKG 2.0 containing 1.48…
Mapping The 2015 Media Geography In One Line of SQL
Kalev's latest Forbes piece includes an interactive clickable map of the major news outlets covering each location on earth, as…
Mapping the Geography of GDELT: March-December 2015
In an update to the map we made last July, the image below shows all 720,000 unique places on earth,…
The First Cyber Battle Of The Internet Of Things May Have Just Happened
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the Dec 23rd power outage in Ukraine through the lens of the coming era of…
Politico Features Candidate Television Tracker
Politico recently used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, to comment on the…
Tracking The Red Cross Logo
Given the key role that the Red Cross plays in disaster response, we wanted to see whether the Google Cloud…
Data Is Not The Same As Truth: Interpretation In The Big Data Era
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the duality of data and interpretation in the big data era and how the…
Algorithms Are Getting Too Complex To Understand
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the exponential increase in the complexity of algorithms are making them difficult for their…
72 Hours Of Fire Imagery: Saudi Protests & Yemen Bombings
With the arson attack on the Saudi Arabian embassy in Iran last night, we wanted to see how well the…
When Algorithms Gives Orders
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the ethical and moral considerations of the new generations of algorithms and AI as they…
The High Costs Of Hosting Science's Big Data
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the commercial cloud could revolutionize scientific computing. Read the Full Article.
Tampa Bay Times Features Candidate Television Tracker
The Tampa Bay Times reprints Jim Tankersley's article on television coverage of the 2016 campaign. Read the Full Article.
The Algorithms Are Taking Over: Who Controls Our Online Future?
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the increasing role of algorithms in controlling the information we see online. The article was…
What The Juniper Breach Teaches Us About The Domestic Dangers Of Backdoors
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the encryption debate through the lens of law enforcement backdoors to encryption and communications platforms….
The $200 Uber Ride And The Realtime Data-Driven Sharing Economy
Kalev's latest Forbes piece examines how the data-driven sharing economy is reshaping the economic world. Read the Full Article.
Google BigQuery + Visual GKG: Sample Queries
Now that the new Visual Global Knowledge Graph, powered by Google Cloud Vision API, is available in Google's BigQuery platform,…
Why 2016 Will Not Be The Year Of Virtual Reality
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the evolving landscape of virtual reality, drawing from his in-the-trenches experiences working in the…
Inside The Big Data World Of Campaign 2016
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the big data world of Campaign 2016, from data breaches to psychological profiling and voter…
Announcing The New GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG)
We’re enormously excited to announce today a transformative moment for GDELT: the alpha release of a highly experimental, but extraordinarily…
48 Hours Of Pollution And Littering Around The World Through Deep Learning
We've only just begun to explore the incredible potential in using the Google Cloud Vision API to catalog the world's news…
Deep Learning Triaging For Disaster Response
One of the early GDELT APIs we created was a special live stream of all coverage worldwide that GDELT monitors…
Deep Learning Image Identification To Counter Poaching
One of the most powerful aspects of "deep learning" (neural network) image recognition is its ability to identify particular species…