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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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WashPost: Cable News Networks Spend Far More Time Talking About Hurricanes Than Wildfires

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how television news pays far more attention to hurricanes than it does wild fires….

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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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Is It Time To Move From Web Hosting Companies To The Cloud?

As the commercial cloud has come to revolutionize how the modern web is built, perhaps the ultimate answer is for…

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Is It Time To Give Up On Using Humans For Tech Support?

Machines are getting better and better at understanding human conversation at the same time human technical support staffing appears to…

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The Perils to Democracy Posed by Big Tech

A look at how Silicon Valley's obsession with censorship of ideas over moderation of expression has led to a dangerous…

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Zuckerberg's Manifesto And Our Algorithmically Controlled Future

As Facebook increasingly reorients its company towards an AI future in which algorithms make all decisions across the site, what…

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Do Algorithms Really Control Society?

For all its vaunted technological might and all its claims that its behavioral engineering algorithms can readily nudge its users…

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How Facebook Changed From Utopian To Orwellian

As the curtain is gradually pulled back on the workings of Silicon Valley’s social behemoths we are increasingly seeing that…

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Acosta and the Intern: A Media Double Standard?

A look at how media coverage of the interaction between CNN's Jim Acosta and the young female White House intern…

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Today's Deep Learning "AI" Is Machine Learning Not Magic

Even the best AI tools are more artistry than science, require reams of carefully curated data from which they inherit…

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We Need Software That Doesn't Panic When Sensors Malfunction

Software systems ultimately hinge on their ability to accurately observe the outside world through sensors, but when they fail, algorithms…

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Google Developers Experts Summit 2018

Kalev was in Sunnyvale this past weekend at the Google Developers Experts Summit 2018. It is amazing to see just…

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WashPost: The Caravan Has All But Vanished From Cable News

The Washington Post's Philip Bump shows how "the caravan" has largely faded from television news coverage. Read The Full Article.

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Estonia's Online Voting Would Solve A Lot Of Our Election Problems

Just imagine the American government of the future if the engineers that brought us the modern web spent a little…

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The Truth Is That We Really Don't Know If There Was Social Media Election Interference

The gatekeepers that silently and opaquely control everything we see and say online, now control our understanding of just how…

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Chicago Tribune Summarizes RealClearPolitics Media Bias Analysis

Page 10 of today's print edition of the Chicago Tribune includes an excerpted summary of the RealClearPolitics analysis of Trump's…

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Three Years And 363 Forbes Columns And Counting

In the just over three years since his debut Forbes column on September 15, 2015 announcing "Reimagining Our World Through…

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WashPost: Trump's Concern About Loss Of 'Momentum' Seems As If It Mostly Means 'TV Coverage'

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how Trump's concerns about "loss of momentum" on key topics seems to translate more…

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Rod Arquette Show Radio Interview On Trump's Mail Bomber Coverage Claims

Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis of Trump's claims of biased media coverage of…

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GDELT Analysis Site Back Up

As we noted last week, the previous vendor we were using to send out the notification emails for the GDELT…