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History Channel Documentary on Nostradamus

You can now watch the History Channel documentary "Nostradamus 21st Century Prophecies Revealed" online through your local cable provider. See…

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Mapping World Happiness And Conflict Through Global News And Image Mining

A series of maps of the world as seen through nearly 200 million global news articles, 1.4 million photographs, 89 million…

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Mapping Global Happiness And Sadness In 2015

In a similar vein to the 2015 global conflict map, the map below compiles a list of every location on…

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Making a Global Conflict Map of 2015

A perennially popular request is the creation of global "conflict maps" summarizing the state of world events over time and…

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Visualizing Global Cities As Geographic Networks

Kalev's latest Forbes piece visualizes the global geographic network of 2015 as seen through the eyes of the world's presses….

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A Country-Level Network Diagram of 2015

Following in the footsteps of yesterday's city-level network diagram of the world, we've put together the following two visuals, illustrating…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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….

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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.

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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,…