Emotions From Images: Sentiment Mining The World's News Imagery
One of the incredibly exciting features of the new Google Cloud Vision API is its ability to detect and categorize the…
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…
Using the GDELT Stability and Word Cloud APIs to Understand The Lake Chad Attacks
Earlier today three suicide bombers attacked three different areas on the island of Koulfoua in Lake Chad, killing at least 27…
Announcing the GDELT Thematic Word Cloud Dashboard API
We're tremendously excited to announce the latest in our rapidly growing suite of GDELT API's: the GDELT Thematic Wordcloud Dashboard API. This…
Showing Refugees Some Love
This neat visualization by Kenneth Davis over at geovisualist.com uses the GDELT GeoJSON API and CartoDB to map positive coverage of…
A Compilation Of GDELT BigQuery Demos
With the debut of GDELT 2.0 earlier this year and the general availability of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) in…
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…
O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World Singapore Next Week
Kalev and Felipe Hoffa of Google will be presenting at the O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World conference in Singapore next week. If you're…
Google Developer Experts Summit 2015
Last week Kalev was at Google's Mountain View campus for the Google Developer Experts Summit, as one of its Cloud…
Why It's So Important To Understand What's In Our Web Archives
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes continues his exploration of web archives and why it is so important to understand what…
A Practical Guide To The Encryption Debate: A Failure Of Analysis Not Encryption
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the encryption debate through historical and pragmatic lenses, examining just what options are truly…
Terascale Sentiment Analysis: BigQuery + Tone Coding Books
As we continue to add new sentiment dictionaries to GDELT on a regular basis, a common request has been the ability…
Using BigQuery To Explore Large Log Files: Exploring the Wayback Machine
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what is really in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the nuance and biases of…
How Much of the Internet Does The Wayback Machine Really Archive?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which turns 20 years old next year and holds…
When Our Televisions Watch Us In Our Homes
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the rise of the "surveillance economy" and how last week's revelations about Vizio televisions…
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….
Latest Internet Archive Television & Politics Visualizations: November 2015
By popular request, we've compiled a roundup of the latest Television & Politics visualizations we've been creating in collaboration with…
IRIN News: Paris vs Kenya Attacks (Terror Around The World)
Due to the high volume of misreports and sharing on social media that the Garissa attack occurred last week, rather than…
Online Social Networks And Offline Protests
A new paper by Zachary C Steinert-Threlkeld, Delia Mocanu, Alessandro Vespignani, and James Fowler of the Department of Political Science at…
TV Networks Shortchanging Ted Cruz
Jim Tankersley's article for the Washington Post uses our interactive campaign 2016 television tracker to compare television attention and polling…
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…
Who's Connected To Whom In The Global Media
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes constructs a global influencer network of the top 100,000 pairs of newsmakers mentioned most frequently…
Why We Need To Verify Our Big Data Results
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how triangulating word patterns drawn from the Google Books ngram viewer against those from the…
One-Click Network Visualization With BigQuery+Gephi
For his latest Forbes piece, Kalev took a network visualization developed by the BBVA Research Emerging Markets Unit of how…