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Using The Classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) To Find Name Variants & References To Donald Trump In The News

One of the most powerful elements of the new Wikipedia-normalized classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) announced last week is its ability…

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Wikipedia Normalization Now Live For Classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) G1 Baseline 2019 Dataset

The entire January 1, 2019 – present classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) G1 baseline dataset has been updated to include…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Historical Backfile Updated With New Language Field

As the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) expands beyond English, earlier this week we updated its BigQuery table to add…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Expanding Beyond English

Unlike the rest of GDELT, which live translates from 65 languages, the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) processes only English…

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Chyron Correlation: Comparing Television News Chyrons Over The Past Three Years

Since August 2017, the Internet Archive's Television News Archive has extracted the chyrons of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC…

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Using The Inference API + Cloud Video To Uncover The Visual Correlations Of A Decade Of Television News

Rather than having the Cloud Inference API surface the most significant visual labels of each day from television news of…

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A By-Station Visual Chronology Of The Top Visual Themes Of Television Evening News 2010-2019 Using Cloud Video + Inference API

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts on…

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Visualizing The Visual Entity Graph Of A Decade Of Television News

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts…

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Visualizing The Most Important Relationships of 2009-2019 Through The Eyes of TV News

Having had Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a decade of television news from the Internet Archive's Television…

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A Television News Chronology Of The Most Important Topics & Things 2009-2019 Using Cloud Inference & Natural Language APIs

Last week we unveiled the results of having Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a decade of television news…

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A Master Spreadsheet Of The Visual Entities Of A Decade Of Evening Television News Broadcasts

When Google's Cloud Video API watches a decade of evening television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: The Military Is Depicted Less Today Than A Decade Ago

Using Google's Cloud Video API to watch a decade of television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: We're Seeing Police More And More In The News

Using Google's Cloud Video API to watch a decade of television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: Cataloging Protest Coverage On The Evening News 2010-2019

Earlier this week we released a massive new dataset in which Google's Cloud Video API watched a decade of evening…

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Tracking The Similarity Of Word Usage On Television News Coverage 2009-2019

What would it look like to use the closed captioning of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News to compare every word…

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Television News GEG: Master Ranked List Of Unique Spoken Entities From Television News 2009-2019

The inaugural Television News Entity Graph processed the closed captioning of each broadcast on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and the…

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Machines Watching Television News: A Visual Entity Graph Over Evening News Broadcasts 2010-2019

  UPDATE (2/3/2020): This has been succeeded by Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0.   What would it look like to…

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A Deep Learning-Powered Entity Graph Over Television News 2009-2019

  UPDATE (2/14/2020): This has been succeeded by the Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0.   This past July we…

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Visualizing The Most Important People Of A Specific Day: December 6, 2019

Rather than examine the most important people of 2019 as a whole or those dominating the discourse around free trade…

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Visualizing The Top People & Connections Relating To Free Trade In 2019

Free trade was a central economic topic this year, but who were the people and the connections between them that…

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Visualizing The Top People & Connections Of 2019

Who were the most important people of 2019 through the eyes of the world's news media and what were the…

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Using Google's Cloud Inference API & Cloud Natural Language API To Create A 'Trending Topics' Timeline

Google’s Cloud Inference API offers an incredibly powerful lens through which to explore the innate hidden patterns of vast archives…

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Announcing The Television News Research Chyrons / 'Lower Third' Dataset

Since August 2017, the Internet Archive's Television News Archive has compiled a daily chyron ("lower third") dataset called "Third Eye,"…

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Mapping Global Protest Trends 1979-2019 Through One Billion News Articles

To date GDELT has processed more than a billion worldwide news articles 1979-2019 to catalog more than half a billion…