Global Difference Graph (GDG) Reaches 1.3 Billion Records
The Global Difference Graph (GDG) has 1.3 billion records since August 2018, recording any changes with each article 24 hours…
Frontpage News Mentions Of Masks Peaked April 4 And Faded But On Upswing Since June 16
The graph below tallies the total number of links each day that mentioned the English word “mask” as part of…
Online News Imagery Of Masks Faded in Early April
Masks are ubiquitous today in daily life across the world. Yet interestingly, that prevalence is not reflected in online news…
Online News Mentions Of Masks Peaked April 4 And Then Faded
Similar to how news imagery of masks peaked around April 4 and have faded since, so too have online mentions…
Television News Has Emphasized Masks In Three Phases
Television news channels CNN, MSNBC and Fox News first started mentioning masks at measurable levels starting on Feb. 26 and…
Using The Global Frontpage Graph To Trace Homepage Links Mentioning "Masks"
Using a single query in BigQuery it is trivial to process the complete 208-billion-link Global Frontpage Graph to examine how…
Searching For Global News Imagery Of Masks
Remember that the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is indexed into GDELT Summary, meaning you can search global news images….
Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Reaches 200 Billion Records
We're excited to announce that the Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) has reached 208 billion records since March 2018!
VGKG Passes Half-Billion Images & Top Labels Of Last 12 Months
The Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has processed more than half a billion worldwide online news images since December 2015,…
Covid-19 So Dominates The News It Appeared In Our Stopword Lists
In a sign of just how much Covid-19 has dominated the global news media in 2020, the words "coronavirus" and…
GKG 2.0 Passes 1.1 Billion Articles & 9.1 Billion Location Mentions 2015-2020
We're excited to announce that the GKG 2.0, which runs 2015-present has passed 1.1 billion articles from across the world!…
Context 2.0 API Now Supports Multilingual Search Across Nearly 140 Languages
We're tremendously excited to announce today that the Context 2.0 API which debuted in May now supports full multilingual search…
Compiling A Massive Multilingual News-Based Stopword List
UPDATE (7/10/2020): Covid-19 has so dominated news coverage of the past half-year that "coronavirus" and "Covid-19" appear in some of…
Campaign 2020 Struggling To Regain Television News Attention
Just six months ago, the 2020 presidential race was set to be the story of the year. Instead, four months…
With TikTok Rally Sabotage, Election Interference Morphs Again
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s campaign rally in a half-empty Tulsa arena, Democrats openly cheered the revelation that activists…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back After Floyd Protests
CNN's live Covid-19 dashboard has run for nearly 9 hours a day since March 20th, but abruptly disappeared during the…
Building Your Own Home Video Recording & Production Studio: Behind The Scenes Of Our New GDELT Tutorials!
With the third video in our new GDELT Tutorial series launching this past weekend, we now have tutorials for Television…
Starting Points For Using GDELT To Understand Environmental & Wildlife Issues From Climate Change To Poaching
GDELT has long been used to understand environmental issues, from early work around climatic change to our well-known 2015 map…
Carto Blog: Google BigQuery Visualization: Mapping Big Spatial Data
Carto republished our new BigQuery+Carto tutorial and video on their blog! Read The Full Post.
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back
Despite briefly dropping its Covid-19 dashboard during the George Floyd protests, CNN has rapidly brought it back, bringing it just…
GDELT Tutorial: Using Carto's BigQuery Connector To Seamlessly Map Covid-19 News
The third in our GDELT Tutorial series, this video walks through our blog post from earlier this week, Using Carto's…
Using Television News Ngrams To Analyze Station-Specific Language
The trio of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News offer a fascinating microcosm of the language differences that define society at…
Using Carto's BigQuery Connector To Seamlessly Map The Global Geographic Graph
The Global Geographic Graph now spans more than 1.7 billion location mentions in worldwide English language news coverage back to…
Facebook Boycott Reveals Triad Shaping the Public Square
On Tuesday, as the number of advertisers boycotting Facebook surpassed more than 400 brands, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally…