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One-Click Mapping Of Covid-19 News Coverage With BigQuery + Carto

How can you use the new Covid-19 Geographic News Database to map the locations mentioned in Covid-19 news coverage? With…

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Announcing A Massive New Geographic News Database Of The Locations Mentioned In Covid-19 News Coverage

Last month we created a map of the top locations on earth most commonly mentioned in worldwide online news coverage…

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BlueDot's December 31st Covid-19 Warning Matches NSC's Early Warning

Reuters' chronology of the early days of the US Government's response to Covid-19 includes this fascinating detail: "The [NSC] was…

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Global Mentions Of 'Rationing' Took Off At The Beginning Of March

Globally, online news mentions of rationing soared in early March. Live Version. Look back a decade through television news, mentions…

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Fauci And Birx Getting More Media Attention While CDC Fades

The CDC and its director unsurprisingly emerged as the early media go-to's of the Covid-19 pandemic, surging into the headlines…

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Covid-19 Pandemic Massively Outpacing Coverage Of Syria, Locusts Or Ebola

American television news stations have run wall-to-wall coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, using data from the Internet Archive's Television…

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African Locust Swarms Receive Little Attention

As locust swarms devastate agricultural production and livelihoods across Africa, the media has paid little attention. American television news, as…

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Fox News Continues To Draw Attention To Hydroxychloroquine

The White House popularized Hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for Covid-19, despite minimal evidence of its efficacy. On television news,…

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Comparing News And Google Trends Search Volume For California Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies

Using a forthcoming extended version of the geographic database underlying the GEO 2.0 API, we wanted to explore how news…

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New York Post Editorial Board: Pandemic Watch: No, Docs Weren't Prophets

The New York Post's Editorial Board cited Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of the chronology of public statements about Covid-19 by national…

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Virus Experts' Early Statements Belie 'Prescient' Portrayal

As predictions of the coronavirus’ impact have grown more dire and the White House has belatedly acknowledged the pathogen’s repercussions…

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Anxiety-Related Language Soars In Global Online News Since Late February

This past October we showcased using the Web News Ngrams dataset to measure global anxiety using a single BigQuery query…

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Visualizing The Entity Graph Around 'Shortages' And Covid-19

Following the incredible graph BBVA created of co-occurring organization names in Covid-19 coverage, we've constructed the graph below of co-occurring…

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Visualizing Entity Co-Occurrences In Covid-19 Coverage Using The Natural Language API

What might the Global Entity Graph tell us about the co-occurrence network of entities mentioned in coverage of Covid-19, as…

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Even April Fool's Day Succumbs To Covid-19

The timeline below plots online news coverage of April Fool's since January 2017, showing this year's coverage was half the…

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What The Data Tell Us About Impeachment As Virus Distraction

Mitch McConnell suggested this week that the U.S. government’s delayed response to the coronavirus pandemic could be traced back, in…

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Global News Mentions Of "Supply Chains" Soar

Across the world, global online news coverage volume mentioning "supply chain" or "supply chains" is soaring: Live Version. On television…

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Medical Imagery On Evening Television News Surging

The total airtime of ABC, CBS and NBC's evening news broadcasts devoted to depictions of medical imagery have soared in…

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Searching For Global News Images Of Masks Using The Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG)

Since December 2015, GDELT's Visual Global Knowledge Graph has analyzed more than half a billion worlwide news images through Google's…

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Using BigQuery's New Limit-Free DML To Create Our Covid 19 Snippet Datasets

Over the past week and a half we've released two massive new datasets of news snippets (television news and online…

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A Look At GDELT's Open AI Datasets: Video, Imagery, Speech And Natural Language Understanding

GDELT has been an early alpha user of many of Google's Cloud AI offerings, exploring how the rapidly advancing world…

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Covid-19 Beats Ebola, Vaping and The Opioid Epidemic On Television News

Using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, the Covid-19 pandemic has eclipsed the Ebola outbreak in mentions, while…

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Fox News Covered Opioid Epidemic The Most

While mentions of the opioid epidemic have been largely displaced by the intense discourse surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, the graph…

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Explore Centuries Of National Parks And Landscapes Through Book Images

Explore the beauty of America's national parks, including special collections like Yellowstone, as well as parks and landscapes in general…