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GDELT + 24 Hours Of Google Cloud Talks by DevRel

We're tremendously excited to announce that Kalev will be speaking at Google Cloud's DevRel event on June 23rd about how…

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A 3.5 Year 634-Million Article Historical Backfile For The Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary

We announced yesterday that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary was now a part of GCAM and being applied to all…

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Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary (eMFD) Added To GCAM!

We're excited to announce today that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary (eMFD) is now available in GCAM as of today!…

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Medium: Why Have Americans And The News Media Lost Interest In The Coronavirus Pandemic?

This fascinating Medium post explores media coverage and Google Trends search interest in the Covid-19 pandemic with some interesting conclusions….

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Exponential Family Tensor Completion With Auxiliary Information

This paper by two researchers at Fudan University explores tensor completion: Tensor completion is among the most important tasks in…

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University de Montemorelos: Application of Data Science to Discover Violence-Related Issues in Iraq

This paper explores various classification algorithms applied to understanding violent social issues in Iraq. Data science has been satisfactorily used…

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Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset: Quadgrams & 5-Grams Now Available!

Last week we unveiled the new Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset of word frequency ngrams in unigram, bigram and trigram…

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Graph Hawkes Neural Network For Forecasting On Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Zhen Han (LMU Munich  & Siemens AG), Yuyi Wang (ETH Zurich), Stephan Gunnemann (Technical University of Munich) and Volker Tresp…

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Global Geographic Graph Reaches 1.7 Billion Entries

The Global Geographic Graph released in April has now reached 1.7 billion entries! Learn More.

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Trump’s Television Mentions Lowest Since Fall 2015

The sweep of Covid-19 across the country has displaced mentions of Donald Trump on television news in a way no…

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Russia Finally Fades From The News After Eight Years

For almost the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency, Russia has loomed large, a steady fixture on television news. While coverage…

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TV News Rapidly Ramps Back Up Covid-19 Coverage

Television news largely abandoned its Covid-19 coverage to go all-in in covering the George Floyd protests, but as the media…

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CNN’s Covid-19 Health Dashboard Making A Comeback Post-Protests

As CNN joined its peers in wall-to-wall coverage of the George Floyd protests, its Covid-19 dashboard that had run for…

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Climate Change – On The Rise Since Mid-2018 – Hits 3.5-Year Low

The “climate crisis” has been surging steadily upwards in global media attention since mid-2018, but shifting global attention to Covid-19…

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Dr. Fauci Disappears From Television News

Dr. Fauci has been perhaps the most prominent representative of the US Government’s Covid-19 response, appearing daily on television news…

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The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD): Development And Applications Of A Crowd-Sourced Approach To Extracting Moral Intuitions From Text

The full paper behind the eMFD dictionary! Read The Full Paper.

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A Semantic Network Approach To Measuring Sentiment

A fascinating paper by researchers at UIC, UCSB and Wayne State University, using GDELT's Covid-19 television news snippets dataset to…

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Protest TV Coverage: Spectacle of 'What' Outweighs the 'Why'

As the nationwide protests sparked by George Floyd’s death have ebbed and the scenes of militarized police clashing with protesters…

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ABC: How Cable News Is Talking About The Protests – And Why It Matters

ABC published this video by FiveThirtyEight looking at how cable news covered the George Floyd protests. Watch The Full Video.

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Acute Crisis Fading, Attention Returns To The Chronic One – Though Less So From Trump

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at how television news have covered the events of 2020, from Covid-19 to the…

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FiveThirtyEight: National Media Coverage Of Black Lives Matter Had Fallen During The Trump Era – Until Now

FiveThirtyEight explores media coverage of the BlackLivesMatter movement. Read The Full Article.

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JOC: Dynamic Transactions Between News Frames and Sociopolitical Events: An Integrative, Hidden Markov Model Approach

This fascinating paper in the Journal of Communication by Frederic Hopp, Jacob Fisher and Rene Weber explores the link between…

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Pandemic Pulse: Unraveling And Modeling Social Signals During The COVID-19 Pandemic

This informative analysis by students at the Center for Network and Data Science at the University of Notre Dame explores…

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Inequality Makes A Comeback On Television News

Mentions of “inequality” and “unequal” increased substantially on television news from Oct. 2011 through Apr. 2016, but as the 2016…