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Announcing The 2018-2019 Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Linguistic Ngram Dataset

On March 2, 2018 we unveiled the GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) which scans 50,000 news homepages around the world…

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New Television News Inventory Files

We're excited to announce the new Television News inventory files, which record the complete list of public shows archived by…

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Announcing The Television News Ngram Datasets (TV-NGRAM)

Update (6/7/2020): This dataset has been superseded by the TV Ngram 2.0 Dataset. Users should move their workflows to this…

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The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 1 Year: 100 Billion URLs

GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, accumulating more than 35 billion URLs in just its first five…

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Who Links To Whom? The 30M Edge GKG Outlink Domain Graph April 2016 To Jan 2019

In April 2016 we began recording the list of all hyperlinks included in the body text of each article in…

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A Look At Frontpage Link Lifespan Through 10 Months Of The Global Frontpage Graph (GFG)

Shortly after the launch of the GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) last March we explored the average lifespan of a…

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The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 10 Months: 76 Billion URLs

GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, accumulating more than 35 billion URLs in just its first five…

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Looking Back On Four Months Of The Global Difference Graph

Four months ago we launched the GDELT Global Difference Graph, which recrawls each online article we monitor after 24 hours…

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Mapping Global Happiness 2015-2018 Through 850 Million News Articles

In 2016 and 2017 we explored what it looked like to try and literally map "global happiness" through the eyes…

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New GDELT Keynote And Paired Half Day Workshop Available In January

We’re tremendously excited to announce that we will be debuting in January a paired keynote and half day workshop covering…

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Animating The Geography Of Television News 2009-2018

Earlier this week we created a series of maps visualizing the geography of American and British television news through the…

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Mapping The Geography Of Television News 2009-2018

Nearly half a decade ago one of the first major visualizations we created using the Internet Archive's Television News Archive…

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Mapping the Linguistic Geography Of GDELT: 2015-2018

In 2015 we created a map of the linguistic geography of Planet Earth as seen through the eyes of GDELT….

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Mapping The Geography Of GDELT: 2015-2018

In 2015 we created a map of the world as seen through the eyes GDELT. This original map examined just…

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A Global Cooccurrence Network Of Cities 2015-2018

Three years ago we asked what it would look like to create a massive global network visualization that shows how…

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Peering Into The Visual Landscape Of Half A Billion News Images With Google’s Cloud Inference API

At its core, the GDELT Project is about helping us understand and make sense of the rapidly evolving world around…

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Announcing the GDELT Global Difference Graph (GDG): Planetary Scale Change Detection For The Global News Media

Just under a decade ago I showed how coupling web archiving with large scale automated change analysis could be used…

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Lessons Learned From Planetary Scale News Crawling

Running a global crawling and processing infrastructure that monitors news outlets in nearly every country in over 65 languages is…

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Creating A Planetary Scale Open Dataset: Just How Big Is GDELT?

The GDELT Project encompasses an incredible array of datasets spanning the entire planet, reaching across 65 languages and making sense…

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The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 5 Months: 35 Billion URLs And Counting

Since the launch of GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) on March 2nd of this year, the dataset has rapidly evolved…

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Mapping The Geography Of Words Through A Year Of Global News

Having spent more than a decade mapping the world through the lens of textual geography, we've become fascinated with the…

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Mapping The Media: A Geographic Lookup Of GDELT's Sources

Given GDELT's incredibly unique ability to peer across the world's languages courtesy of its mass machine translation infrastructure, a common…

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Mapping The 2015-2018 Media Geography In One Line of SQL

In 2015 we created a map of the geography of the world's media as seen through a year of GDELT's…

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Geographic FeatureID To Common Name Crosswalk May 2018 Update

While we tend to think of geographic locations as having just one name, in reality they can have dozens or…