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Announcing The New GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG)

We’re enormously excited to announce today a transformative moment for GDELT: the alpha release of a highly experimental, but extraordinarily…

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A Vision Of The Future: GDELT + Google Cloud Vision API

The past year has been an incredible year for GDELT. With the public release of GDELT 2.0, we now monitor…

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O'Reilly Ideas: Analyzing The World's News

Kalev and Felipe wrote an article for O'Reilly Ideas titled "Analyzing the world’s news: Exploring the GDELT Project through Google…

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Complex Queries: Combining Events, EventMentions, and GKG

A common request revolves around filtering events to just those mentioned in articles that focus on certain themes or groups….

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Visualizing The Global Influencer Network

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the connections that defined 2015 by constructing a network diagram over the people mentioned in…

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GDELT 2.0 GKG Reaches 150 Million Records

We're excited to announce that earlier today the GDELT 2.0 Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) reached a total of just over 150 million…

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Getting Started with GDELT + Google Cloud Datalab: Simple Network Visualizations

Following up from our last post of simple timeline visualizations you can make using Google's new Cloud Datalab, Felipe Hoffa…

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Getting Started with GDELT + Google Cloud Datalab: Simple Timelines

Google recently released Google Cloud Datalab which provides a cloud-hosted version of Jupyter/IPython that is tightly coupled with Google BigQuery, Google…

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Map of Global Antitank and MANPADS Weapons

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes includes an interactive CartoDB map visualizing eight months of global coverage of antitank and MANPADS…

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Network Visualization of Global Refugee Flows

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes, mapping the global flow of refugees through creating geographic networks from GDELT, includes several visualizations…

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Mapping The Global Flow of Refugees Through News Coverage

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores creating geographic networks tracing the global flow of refugees using network co-occurrence analysis to…

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Assessing Turkey's Physical Stability And Societal "Mood"

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how GDELT can be used to assess Turkey's physical stability using the GDELT Event…

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The World As Seen Through Books: Comparing the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books Ngrams Collections

With the proliferation of cheap high-resolution digital imaging hardware and falling storage costs, mass digitization initiatives have gone mainstream, bringing…

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Mapping 212 Years of History Through Books

Kalev's latest Forbes piece includes an incredible new interactive animated zoomable map of 212 years of world history as seen through…

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What It Looks Like to Process 3.5 Million Books

While we'll be putting together a longer piece soon that goes into far more detail on how we processed the…

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Towards a Generalized Model of Media Fatigue: Vanuatu & Nepal

The results of our collaboration with IRIN to explore the effects of media fatigue in coverage of the April 24th,…

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IRIN News: The Nepal Earthquake at Three Months: Media Fatigue and Bias

In collaboration with IRIN News, on the three-month anniversary of the Nepal Earthquake, we wanted to explore what it looks like…

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Mapping the Geographic Networks of Global Refugee Flows

Today we unveil a visualization of global refugee flows as seen through the eyes of the world's press.  More precisely,…

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Mapping Greece Through the Eyes of the World

Today we unveil a map of the unfolding Greek crisis as seen through the eyes of the world's news media…

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A Network Diagram of Greece July 1-15

Using the sample GKG 2.0 BigQuery network query, the following visualization shows the network of the top 1,500 connections among…

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Linguistic Geography: Mapping the Languages of GDELT February-July 2015

We're excited to unveil a new visualization that showcases the power of GDELT's realtime machine translation of the world's local news…

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Mapping the Geography of GDELT: February-July 2015

We're excited to unveil a new visualization that showcases the incredible reach of GDELT 2.0.  The map below displays a…

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Mapping Global Protests Redux

Two years ago Pennsylvania State University doctoral student John Beieler put together an animated map of global protests over the…

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Mapping ISIS: Three Months of Global ISIS Narrative

In the latest addition to our map series using CartoDB, we plot all worldwide news coverage monitored by GDELT 2.0 from…