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China Mentions Map

An interesting visualization of geographic connections with China: View The Full Tweet.

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Enhanced 'Last 72 Hours' Option For Television Explorer

As researchers and journalists are increasingly using the Television Explorer to track coverage of and reaction to fast-moving events, there…

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Leeds: A Global Struggle: Worker Protest In The Platform Economy

The new Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest "provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation…

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Video AI: Motion OCR Recovery Of Damaged Text

Google's Cloud Video API is extremely capable at recovering even highly degraded onscreen text from television news broadcasts. Historically, OCR…

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Video AI: The Trade-offs Of Translating Frame-Level Annotations Into Per-Second Aggregations

Video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API typically annotate video content at the level of the individual frame, reporting…

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New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?

The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…

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WashPost: Their 2018 Win Was Historic. What Have These Democrats Accomplished?

The Washington Post's look at the 2018 freshman House class includes a look at how much media coverage key members…

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Recovering Degraded Onscreen Text From Television News: Deepwater Horizon

Yesterday we showed how Google's Cloud Video API was able to seamlessly identify onscreen Arabic text in an ABC Evening…

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Multilingual OCR From Evening Television News: Arabic On ABC

As we explore how deep learning video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API can help us reimagine how machines…

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Blocked March for Life Tweets Raise Free Speech Concerns

In the lead-up to last week’s March for Life rally, Twitter generated controversy for censoring at least two different pro-life…

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Greater Good Gathering 3.0

Kalev will be speaking at the Greater Good Gathering 3.0 next week at Columbia University on a panel alongside Director…

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Discerning Certainty Amidst Chaos: The Conflicting Cacophony Of News

One of the greatest challenges in attempting to monitor the entire planet lies in discerning certainty amidst the chaotic conflicting…

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World Bank: How Technology & Data Are Transforming Sustainable Development

Kalev spoke to the World Bank today on how GDELT's global datasets can be used to help understand global narratives…

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Identifying Contradictory Climate Change Narratives Using Cloud Natural Language & The Climate Change Narratives Dataset

Moving beyond simple Q&A about climate change, could we use Google's Cloud Natural Language API and our new Climate Change…

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Using Cloud Natural Language & The Climate Change Narratives Dataset For Q&A About Climate Change

With yesterday's massive new dataset containing the URLs and context snippets of 6.3 million English language online news articles about…

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Four Massive Datasets Charting The Global Climate Change News Narrative 2009-2020

Over the past two days we have released a set of four massive new datasets designed to fundamentally advance the…

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A New Contextual Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives: 6.3M English News URLs With Contextual Snippets 2015-2020

We are tremendously excited today to announce the fourth in our series of climate change narrative datasets, covering television, linguistics and…

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Can 'Cahoots' Be Anything Other Than 'In Cahoots'?

The Wall Street Journal's Ben Zimmer yesterday traced how the word "cahoots" has evolved over time, noting among other things…

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A New Multilingual Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives: 4.1 Million News URLs In 63 Languages 2015-2020

For those interested in exploring the global news narrative around climatic change, we are excited to announce today a massive…

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Measuring a Trump-Size Mark on the Cable News Universe

The presidency of Donald Trump has not only divided the public, it has fractured the media landscape. The tone of…

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A New Part Of Speech Dataset To Explore Climate Change Narratives In English Online News 2016-2020

Yesterday we released a massive new dataset comprised of all 95,000 mentions of climate change on television news on CNN,…

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New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?

The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…

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Understanding The Global Multilingual World Through Deep Learning & Data

Kalev presented again to the Wharton School today in DC on the state of GDELT and leveraging deep learning and…

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A New Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives On Television News 2009-2020

Climate change has emerged over the past decade as a major societal fault line, with the public narrative becoming a…