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Do Smart Cities Pose Data Dangers? When Governments See Value In Data

Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores what happens as smart cities recognize the value of the data they hold and…

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Machines Deciding What We See Online: How AI Is Changing The Web

Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores how AI and new semantic elements like Google's knowledge panels are reshaping how machines…

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Is Facebook's Trending Topics Biased Against Africa And The Middle East?

Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores the bias in Facebook's Trending Topics module against news outlets in Africa and the…

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Does Facebook Suffer From Unconscious Bias? An Insider View Into Human Cataloging

Kalev's latest Forbes story explores how unconscious bias plays a key role in undermining human-powered analytic projects. Read the Full…

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Facebook And Conservative News – How Social Media Controls What We See

Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores the Gizmodo report that Facebook's Trending Topics module may be censoring stories of interest…

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When Twitter Cut Off The US Intelligence Community: Social Media And Surveillance

Kalev's latest Forbes story explores social media in the era of surveillance and how Twitter cut off access by the…

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What Ghostbusters And Trump Teach Us About The Perils Of Data Analysis

Kalev's latest Forbes story explores what the new Ghostbusters movie and Trump's status as Republican nominee teaches us about the perils…

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The Bangladesh SWIFT Hack & The Future Of Cybersecurity And Cyberwar

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what the February 2016 cyber heist of the Bangladesh central bank via a compromise of…

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In An Era Of Unlimited Photos What Are We Really Capturing About The World?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the explosion of mobile phone cameras is generating a world in which Facebook alone…

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Why Do We Trust GPS More Than We Trust Ourselves?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores why we increasingly trust technology over our own intuition. Read The Full Article.

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From Amazon To Google Books: How The Internet Is Changing How We Read

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the internet revolution is changing how we consume and interact with books. Read the…

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New York City In 1993: An HD Look At Life Before Cell Phones

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how much cell phones have changed daily life. Read the Full Article.

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The Future Of Open Access In Academic Publishing

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes, "The Future Of Open Access: Why Has Academia Not Embraced The Internet Revolution?" explores the…

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Yahoo News Uses Candidate Television Tracker

Yahoo News used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, to comment on Trump's…

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AEI: Liberal Vs Conservative Television News Coverage Of Trump

The American Enterprise Institution (AEI) recently published a study in the April 25, 2016 issue of National Review exploring liberal versus…

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Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) April 2016 Snapshot Dataset

Following in the footsteps of our February snapshot, we're releasing an April 2016 snapshot of the Visual Global Knowledge Graph…

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FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver Uses Candidate Television Tracker

Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News…

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The Big Data Viz Challenge Sponsored By Google And Tableau

We're enormously excited by the Big Data Viz Challenge, sponsored by Google and Tableau, and can't wait to see what some…

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Webs of Influence: National Stakeholder Networks and Corporate Social Performance

This study by Kate Odziemkowska and Witold J. Henisz of the Wharton School use GDELT to explore dyadic stakeholder networks. Read the…

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GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph Reaches 46 Million Images

We are tremendously excited to announce that as of this afternoon, the GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has reached 46…

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Using BigQuery Table Decorators To Lower Query Cost

As GDELT has grown at an exponential rate, the size and complexity of its data archives means it takes ever…

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New GKG 2.0 Article Metadata Fields

With the debut this week of our massive new document extraction platform, we are tremendously excited to unveil several new…

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Announcing Our Newest Generation Document Extraction Platform

We are enormously excited to announce that over the last several days we have gradually phased in the newest generation of our…

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IRIN News: The Alan Kurdi Effect And Media Coverage Of Refugees

Ben Parker of IRIN News put out a fascinating graph showing the positive/negative emotional tone of UK news coverage of…