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Diffusion Of Protests In The Arab Spring

This fascinating paper explores protest diffusion in the 2011 Arab Spring: This paper examines how protests spread across countries in…

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Commodities & Financial Early Warning Using Web NGrams + GCP Timeseries Insights API + Translate + BigQuery

On Friday, we combined GDELT's Web NGrams 3.0 dataset with GCP's Timeseries Insights API, Translate API and BigQuery to create…

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WashPost: What If Tucker Carlson's Wrong About More Than Just Russia?

The Washington Post's Philip Bump offers some insights from Russian television news via the TV Visual Explorer. Read The Full…

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Measuring Global Anxiety In The Pandemic Era: Planetary-Scale Sentiment Mining

GDELT's unique global reach across more than 150 languages spanning nearly every corner of the globe makes it possible to…

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AI Bias & Why It Is So Important To Understand The Intrinsic Biases Of Real World Data

Powering the exponential rise of AI over the past decade has been the digital revolution that has made unimaginably large…

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TV News' Massive Gender Bias: A Decade Of "He" Over "She" Pronouns

As societies around the world increasingly confront gender bias, how does television news reinforce such bias? One measure is how…

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"Us" Versus "Them" On TV News: How Mueller Forever Fractured The News And COVID-19 Only Briefly Brought Us Back Together

One of the ways social scientists examine group dynamics in the media is to examine latent framing in the form…

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Television News Pronouns: How The Pandemic Changed "I/Me" Versus "Us/We"

How often does television news refer to "i" and "me" (the anchor, interviewee or guest referring to themselves) versus "us"…

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Monkeypox & Disease Early Warning: Planetary-Scale Anomaly Detection With Web NGrams + GCP Timeseries Insights API + Translate + BigQuery

From capturing the first flickers of 2014's Ebola outbreak to powering one of the earliest alerts of the Covid-19 pandemic,…

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

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

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Coming Soon: The GDELT Video Series

In the coming weeks we'll be unveiling a tremendously exciting new content series of short and long form videos exploring…

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Tracking socio-economic activities in European countries with unconventional data

This paper by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) explores GDELT as an unconventional dataset for societal…

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TV Visual Explorer: Republic of Congo's Télé Congo

The Republic of Congo's Télé Congo is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe,…

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Timeseries Insights API + BigQuery + Translate + Web NGrams = Monkeypox Early Warning Demo Coming This Week

Stay tuned for a really exciting new demo coming later this week using the GCP Timeseries Insights API, BigQuery, Google…

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TV Visual Explorer: Sudan State TV

Sudan State TV is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and…

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Pakistan Is Already Fading From The News

Despite killing more than 1,191 people, the floods in Pakistan have quickly faded from television news. Overall, they received fairly…

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TV Visual Explorer: Southern Sudan Television

Southern Sudan Television is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and…

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Online And Business TV News Coverage Of Inflation Leveling Off

Unlike general television news coverage of inflation, which has followed four stages, business television news coverage of inflation took off…

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TV Visual Explorer: United Arab Emirates' Sharjah TV

The United Arab Emirates' Sharjah TV is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe,…

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Inflation Mentions On TV News Have Risen In Four Stages Since Last Year

Since the start of the pandemic, mentions of inflation followed four stages, each time surging and then leveling off at…

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TV Visual Explorer: Portugal’s RTP Internacional (RTPi)

Portugal’s RTP Internacional (RTPi) is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East…

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Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset Reaches Quarter-Trillion Entries

The Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset has reached 283 billion entries! See our tutorials roundup from this past January for…

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Experiments In Scanning Russian Television News For Fox News Clips

Yesterday we showcased how Google's Cloud Vision API could be used to rapidly and non-consumptively annotate a television news broadcast…

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TV Visual Explorer: Palestinian Satellite Channel

Palestinian Satellite Channel is among the 9 new channels that form the TV News Visual Explorer's new Europe, Middle East and…