Measuring the Media's Obsession With Trump
A sobering look at the sheer magnitude of the media's incredible obsession with Trump. Read The Full Article.
Facebook Still Doesn't Understand What Privacy Means
Zuckerberg’s stance on user data is an Orwellian commodification of the most personal and intimate digital lives of its two…
We Really Are Just Data For Sale In Facebook's Eyes
The Six4Three emails paint a startling image of a for-profit behemoth run amok, single-mindedly focused on expanding, extracting and monetizing…
Social Media Platforms Are Still Powerless To Stop Data Misuse
If the social platforms still can’t reign in unauthorized commercial use of their platforms and misuse of user data in…
Even George H.W. Bush's Death Is About The Donald
The media's obsession globally with all things Trump runs so deeply that even coverage of Bush 41's death was reframed…
The Marriott Breach Reminds Us How Valuable Hotel Data Is To Spies
The recent massive Marriott breach offers a stark reminder of just how much intimate data about us is stored in…
Why Australia's New Anti-Encryption Law Would Be Both Dangerous And Useless
Weakening encryption would actually benefit terrorists and criminals who would quickly adapt and leverage the decreased security environment, while the…
Chicago Tribune Summarizes RealClearPolitics Big Tech And Democracy Commentary
Page 13 of today's print edition of the Chicago Tribune includes an excerpted summary of the RealClearPolitics commentary "The Perils…
20th Annual University Of Illinois Web Conference Keynote
Kalev will be one of the three keynotes of the 20th Annual University Of Illinois Web Conference Keynote being held on…
Harper's Magazine On Twitter
An article in this month's issue of Harper's Magazine by Nora Caplan-Bricker includes a quote from an interview with Kalev…
Google Cloud Developer Community Istanbul Talk
While in Istanbul, Kalev spoke today to the Google Cloud Developer Community Istanbul on using the Google Cloud Platform for planetary…
Fifth Istanbul Mediation Conference: Policy Lab: Big Data for Global Conflict and the Future of Mediation
Kalev spoke today at the Fifth Istanbul Mediation Conference: Enhancing The Practice Of Mediation For Sustaining Peace in Istanbul, organized by…
Is the Khashoggi Story Really About Trump?
The slaying of Jamal Khashoggi last month has defied the traditional media curve in which coverage of even the biggest…
Mapping World Happiness 2015-2018 Through 850 Million News Articles
What might it look like to literally “map world happiness” over the past four years and how can the cloud…
Mapping Global Happiness 2015-2018 Through 850 Million News Articles
In 2016 and 2017 we explored what it looked like to try and literally map "global happiness" through the eyes…
Seeing The World Through The Eyes Of Others: Mass Machine Translation
Imagine a world without language barriers, where anyone can access real-time information from anywhere in the world in any language,…
New GDELT Keynote And Paired Half Day Workshop Available In January
We’re tremendously excited to announce that we will be debuting in January a paired keynote and half day workshop covering…
Television And Geography As Big Data: Mapping A Decade Of Television News
When we begin to think of television as data and geography as a lens through which to explore it, we…
Should Social Media Be Held Responsible For The Atrocities And Deaths It Facilitates?
As social media is increasingly used to facilitate horrific activities across the world, should the companies behind those platforms bear…
If Social Media Algorithms Control Our Lives Why Can't They Eliminate Hate Speech?
Are the vaunted algorithms that power social media not nearly as powerful as we believe? Or if they are, why…
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…
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….
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…
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….