CuriousGnu: How The World Sees Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump

CuriousGnu used BigQuery put together a set of fantastic maps in CartoDB using GDELT to map the average tone of the media coverage of each country around the world about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, producing some fascinating findings! At the most obvious level, the world's media seems to like Trump a lot less than Clinton. But, look closely and you'll see that Russian media seems to have a much higher opinion of Trump than Clinton, matching the glowing public comments the two leaders have exchanged to date.

The full article goes into detail about the methodology and includes the raw BigQuery SQL used to create the map. Its fantastic to see incredible visualizations like this that bring together so many different facets into a single visual!

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