Mentions Of "Superspreaders" Fade On Television News
So-called "superspreaders" have been mentioned on television news throughout 2020, but surged briefly during the entire month of October, with…
Television News Coverage Of "Social Distancing" Never Recovered After George Floyd Protests
Mentions of "social distancing" soared into the media lexicon in mid-March and accounted for 1-4% of daily airtime on CNN,…
Mentions Of "Safe Spaces" Have Faded On Television News
The concept of "safe spaces" entered the television news lexicon around mid-2014, with Fox News focusing on them from late…
Impact Of Trump's Promotion Of Unproven COVID-19 Treatments And Subsequent Internet Trends: Observational Study
A fascinating paper by Kacper Niburski1 and Oskar Niburski explores the connection between President Trump's promotion of COVID-19 treatments and…
Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference Today
Kalev is speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference today! Learn More.
The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation Today
Kalev is speaking today at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…
World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers: Big Data, Big Stories: Next Month
Attend the 2020 World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers next month to hear Kalev speak about "Big Data, Big…
Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference
Kalev will be speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference this week! Learn More.
Television News Refocuses On The Pandemic
Mentions of the pandemic dropped off a cliff on television news in the leadup to the election, with MSNBC shifting…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back After Biden Win
CNN's omnipresent Covid-19 dashboard all but disappeared beginning October 27th as the channel switched to its round-the-clock election news. However,…
GDELT 3.0: Unified Global Crawler Fleet
Historically, GDELT has operated multiple parallel crawler fleets distributed across Google Cloud Platform's global datacenters, each dedicated to a particular…
Tucker Decomposition-Based Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
This paper by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences uses GDELT to explore temporal knowledge completion: Knowledge graphs have…
A Primer On Mis/Disinformation, Propaganda, Falsehoods And Digital Literacy
Given the growing interest in mis/disinformation, propaganda, falsehoods, deep fakes and digital literacy, we've pulled together a collection of links…
GDELT 3.0 Coming Soon
We are enormously excited to announce that GDELT 3.0 is at long last in the early stages of rolling out!…
Recurrent Event Network: Autoregressive Structure Inference Over Temporal Knowledge Graphs
This paper by researchers at the University of Southern California, Quebec AI Institute and the University of Montreal examines inference…
The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation
Kalev will be speaking at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…
Image Sharing Across The News: Social Media Site Overlap
Following from our graph of global news coverage image overlap, what would it look like to limit that graph to…
Visualizing The Network Of Image Sharing Across The Global News Landscape
Each image in the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is analyzed by Google Cloud Vision API's "WebEntities" that performs the…
Visual Global Knowledge Graph Expands To Coverage In All 152 Monitored Languages
Historically the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has only processed articles found in the GKG, which limited it to the 65…
Global Difference Graph Covers All 152 Monitored Languages
As GDELT's transition to GDELT 3.0 accelerates, it is worth remembering that since its launch in August 2018, the Global…
Visual Global Knowledge Graph Adds Image Caption, Page Title And Page Language
We're excited to announce today that the Visual Global Knowledge Graph has added three new fields to the "ImageProperties" object…
The Divergent Media Profiles Of Trump And Biden Post-Election
How have the media profiles of Trump and Biden diverged since the election? Has the media's focus shifted from the…
We're Talking Less About Inflation Than We Used To
As economists discuss what a Biden presidency might mean for the economy, the impact of ever-wider government spigots on inflation…
We Haven't Talked About Debt Since November 2013
The three major national cable news channels have largely stopped talking about debt since November 2013. Discussion of the "national…