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500 Years Of Images From The World's Books As An AI Training Dataset
Eight years ago GDELT's Kalev Leetaru collaborated with the Internet Archive to extract the images from 600 million digitized public…
Using Web NGrams 3.0 & BigQuery To Track "Shortages of …"
We've published a growing collection of tutorials on how to use the Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset for a range…
Using The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 As An AI-Powered Visual Index To The Visual Explorer
For CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC News London since January 1, 2020 and the ABC, CBS and NBC evening…
New York Times' Tucker Carlson Series Wins The 2022 ONA For Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling
The New York Times's Tucker Carlson series has won the 2022 Online Journalism Award (ONA) For Excellence and Innovation in…
TV News Visual Explorer: Announcing 98 Channels In 50 Countries In 35 Languages Over 20 Years
Today we are immensely excited to announce a new collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive to make available…
WashPost: How Social Influencers Helped Drive Fox News Coverage
Yesterday, the Washington Post published an incredibly detailed in-depth look at the connection between social influencers and Fox News coverage…
See Putin's Speech In The TV News Visual Explorer
You can view Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech today in the Visual Explorer from 1TV, showcasing the power of this…
WashPost: Trump's 'Big Lie' Fueled A New Generation Of Social Media Influencers
The Washington Post's Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeremy B. Merrill published today this impressive and detailed in-depth look at the MSM-social…
Mentions Of Sexual Assault And Harassment On Television News Have Returned To Their Pre-MeToo Levels
The #MeToo movement brought with it significant media coverage of sexual assault and harassment on television news, but while mentions…
Coverage Of #MeToo Has Faded On Television News
The #MeToo movement burst into television news in October-November 2017, but largely faded within a year on CNN and MSNBC,…
The Internet Archive's TV News Archive Turns 10: A Look Back At A Decade Of Pioneering Collaboration Reimagining Media Research
The Internet Archive's Television News Archive was launched to the public ten years ago today and GDELT and its founder…
The Benefit Of Narratives For Prediction Of The S&P 500 Index
This paper uses GDELT for financial forecasting: In this article, the authors show that variables from the Global Database of…
How American Media Is Repurposed By Adversaries Abroad: From Russian Coverage Of Its Ukraine Invasion To Iranian Sanctions
One of the many fascinating elements of Russian domestic television coverage of its invasion of Ukraine is the way to…
Video: Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation
Kalev spoke today alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks, Research Fellow…
As Censorship And Secrecy Rise, So Do Conspiracy Theories
This medium post by Kent Kroeger includes a graph of media discussion of censorship. Read The Full Article.
WashPost: Drug Dealers Are Theoretically Targeting Your Babies Again, America
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of fentanyl. Read The Full Article.
Tomorrow: Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation
Kalev will be speaking tomorrow alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks,…
Big Data-Based Analysis And Prediction Of International Events
This paper explores international event forecasting using GDELT: International event data can be seen as sensors that explain the interaction…
Diffusion Of Protests In The Arab Spring
This fascinating paper explores protest diffusion in the 2011 Arab Spring: This paper examines how protests spread across countries in…
Commodities & Financial Early Warning Using Web NGrams + GCP Timeseries Insights API + Translate + BigQuery
On Friday, we combined GDELT's Web NGrams 3.0 dataset with GCP's Timeseries Insights API, Translate API and BigQuery to create…
WashPost: What If Tucker Carlson's Wrong About More Than Just Russia?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump offers some insights from Russian television news via the TV Visual Explorer. Read The Full…
Measuring Global Anxiety In The Pandemic Era: Planetary-Scale Sentiment Mining
GDELT's unique global reach across more than 150 languages spanning nearly every corner of the globe makes it possible to…
AI Bias & Why It Is So Important To Understand The Intrinsic Biases Of Real World Data
Powering the exponential rise of AI over the past decade has been the digital revolution that has made unimaginably large…
TV News' Massive Gender Bias: A Decade Of "He" Over "She" Pronouns
As societies around the world increasingly confront gender bias, how does television news reinforce such bias? One measure is how…