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Behind The Scenes: The Power Of Simple Command Line Tools At Cloud Scale

Most discussions of cloud-scale infrastructure focus on massive exotic architectures that rely on highly specialized tools. It is worth pointing…

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Today: The Future Of Text

Kalev will be speaking today at "The Future Of Text" symposium at The Linnean Society in London, co-convened by Frode…

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Tweets On Television News: A 2012 Example From TelevisaUnivision's Galavisión

In 2020 and 2021 we collaborated with First Draft to examine how television news coverage amplified then-President Donald trump's tweets,…

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This Week: The Future Of Text

Kalev will be speaking this Tuesday at "The Future Of Text" symposium at The Linnean Society in London, co-convened by…

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Creating A Daily Global Shortage Timeline Using Web NGrams 3.0 & BigQuery In One SQL Query

Earlier today we showed how to use Web NGrams 3.0 and BigQuery to track mentions of "shortages of" across English…

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LGBTQ Mentions On Television News Rising Slowly Under Biden

LGBTQ mentions on television news collapsed in late 2016 and have never recovered compared to where they were the first…

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Recession Mentions Are Down Across Television News

After peaking in July, mentions of "recession" on television news are down sharply. Looking just since the start of this…

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500 Years Of Images From The World's Books As An AI Training Dataset

Eight years ago GDELT's Kalev Leetaru collaborated with the Internet Archive to extract the images from 600 million digitized public…

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Using Web NGrams 3.0 & BigQuery To Track "Shortages of …"

We've published a growing collection of tutorials on how to use the Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset for a range…

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Using The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 As An AI-Powered Visual Index To The Visual Explorer

For CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC News London since January 1, 2020 and the ABC, CBS and NBC evening…

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New York Times' Tucker Carlson Series Wins The 2022 ONA For Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling

The New York Times's Tucker Carlson series has won the 2022 Online Journalism Award (ONA) For Excellence and Innovation in…

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TV News Visual Explorer: Announcing 98 Channels In 50 Countries In 35 Languages Over 20 Years

Today we are immensely excited to announce a new collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive to make available…

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WashPost: How Social Influencers Helped Drive Fox News Coverage

Yesterday, the Washington Post published an incredibly detailed in-depth look at the connection between social influencers and Fox News coverage…

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See Putin's Speech In The TV News Visual Explorer

You can view Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech today in the Visual Explorer from 1TV, showcasing the power of this…

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WashPost: Trump's 'Big Lie' Fueled A New Generation Of Social Media Influencers

The Washington Post's Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeremy B. Merrill published today this impressive and detailed in-depth look at the MSM-social…

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Mentions Of Sexual Assault And Harassment On Television News Have Returned To Their Pre-MeToo Levels

The #MeToo movement brought with it significant media coverage of sexual assault and harassment on television news, but while mentions…

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Coverage Of #MeToo Has Faded On Television News

The #MeToo movement burst into television news in October-November 2017, but largely faded within a year on CNN and MSNBC,…

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The Internet Archive's TV News Archive Turns 10: A Look Back At A Decade Of Pioneering Collaboration Reimagining Media Research

The Internet Archive's Television News Archive was launched to the public ten years ago today and GDELT and its founder…

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The Benefit Of Narratives For Prediction Of The S&P 500 Index

This paper uses GDELT for financial forecasting: In this article, the authors show that variables from the Global Database of…

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How American Media Is Repurposed By Adversaries Abroad: From Russian Coverage Of Its Ukraine Invasion To Iranian Sanctions

One of the many fascinating elements of Russian domestic television coverage of its invasion of Ukraine is the way to…

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Video: Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation

Kalev spoke today alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks, Research Fellow…

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As Censorship And Secrecy Rise, So Do Conspiracy Theories

This medium post by Kent Kroeger includes a graph of media discussion of censorship. Read The Full Article.

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WashPost: Drug Dealers Are Theoretically Targeting Your Babies Again, America

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of fentanyl. Read The Full Article.

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Tomorrow: Between The Brackets: Fairness & Ethics In AI: From Journalism, Medicine And Translation

Kalev will be speaking tomorrow alongside Mallika Iyer, Head of Product Manager of Translation AI at Google and Samuel Marks,…