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Towards Data Science: Building a Social Network from the News using Graph Theory

An interesting tutorial by Marcell Ferencz using GDELT as an index to identify relevant coverage that he then analyzed in…

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How High Will Search Rank Increase If Linked From Major Media?

This Japanese language article walks through constructing a page rank analysis by mapping outlinks from major news outlets using the…

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Using AWS Glue For ETL Work

This Chinese language article walks through an ETL pipeline using AWS centered around GDELT. Read The Full Article.

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Mentions Of "Back To Work" Enter Television News Lexicon March 23

The phrase "back to work" has become a common refrain from the nation's elected officials and economists as the Covid-19…

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Mentions Of Death Increase On Television News

Mentions of "death" and "deaths" have steadily increased on television news since Feb. 29th. Live Version.

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Infection Count Vs. Jobless Data: An Imbalanced TV Picture

A Washington Post opinion piece this week posed an interesting question: What if television news channels like CNN displayed unemployment numbers throughout…

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Hannity Leads The Way In "Fake News" Mentions In 2020

Since the start of 2020, Fox News has mentioned the phrase "fake news" more than four times as often as…

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Television News Mentions Of "Fake News" Trend Steadily Downward But Fox News Still Leads The Way

Television news mentions of "fake news" have trended steadily downward since they rocketed to prominence in November 2016, with Fox…

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Covid-19 Brings To End Surge In Discussion Of Homelessness On Fox News

Mentions of homelessness surged on Fox News from May 2019 through a peak in December 2019, but have dropped precipitously…

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Visual Global Entity Graph Adds Cloud Video Annotations Of MSNBC, Fox News and BBC To CNN To Support Covid-19 Research

The Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) has analyzed the evening news programming of ABC, CBS and NBC since 2010 through…

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Unemployment Numbers Versus Infection Numbers On Television News

An opinion piece in yesterday's Washington Post by Helaine Olen raised the fascinating question of whether television news outlets should…

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WashPost: Ingraham And Hannity Have Been Talking About Hydroxychloroquine Twice As Much As Any Other Show

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how coverage of a number of terms varies across media personalities. View The Full…

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Mentions Of Video Conferencing Soar

As the timeline below shows, mentions of video conferencing had two periods of increase. They began to soar in late…

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Television Explorer's Show Chart & Fox's Focus On Hydroxychloroquine

Last week we showed that Fox News has mentioned Hydroxychloroquine much more often than CNN or MSNBC. This raises the…

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TV 2.0 API Now Offers Breakdown By Show

The TV 2.0 API makes it possible to conduct advanced analytics over more than a decade of television news programming…

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Mentions Of Hiring Freezes Soar Starting In Early March

Mentions of hiring freezes began to soar starting in early March as companies across the world internalized the impact of…

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China Economic Times: GDELT Big Data To See The Change Of Global Epidemic Concern

An article in today's China Economic Times uses GDELT to explore global media reaction to the growing Covid-19 pandemic. Read…

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We're Talking More About Evictions But Less Than In 2011

Television news is talking more about evictions starting last month, but is still off from its 2011 peak. Live Version….

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New Humanitarian: Covid-19 Disruption To Egg Supply Before Passover In Israeli Headlines

New Humanitarian's Ben Parker has this fascinating graph of the density of discussion in Israeli media mentioning eggs. View The…

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Livemint: How Access To Facebook Stirs Protests

Livemint covers this study from last year on the relationship between Facebook usage and protest activity globally. Read The Full…

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Graphing Covid-19 Geographic News Timelines Using BigQuery

Using our massive new Covid-19 Geographic News Database, its possible with a simple SQL query to visualize geographic timelines. For example,…

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HFM Virtual Symposium: Dirty Data: Cleaning, Mapping And Analyzing

Kalev will be speaking at HFM's Virtual Symposium alongside MayStreet's founder and CEO and the CTO of Crux Informatics on…

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An Animated Map Of Global Covid-19 News Coverage With BigQuery + Carto

How did news coverage of Covid-19 spread across the world? Using our massive new Covid-19 Geographic News Database, it takes…

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Governors Increasingly In The Spotlight On Television News

State governors are increasingly in the spotlight as many of the Covid-19 responses fall to states to implement. The timeline…