Replacing Synthetic Data With GDELT's Real World Data For Algorithmic Development
Much of today's research into scaling algorithms to new dataset sizes, complexities and questions relies on synthetic or highly constrained…
Using The Global Similarity Graph To Bootstrap Categorization Models Using Web NGrams 3.0
A common question from organizations building document classifiers on top of the Web NGrams 3.0 dataset is how to accelerate…
Assessing Planetary-Scale Emotion In The News: GCAM & Web NGrams
Ever since Culturomics 2.0 demonstrated the predictive power of global-scale sentiment analysis in understanding global risk and launched the modern…
Using Chyrons To Understand Diversity In Television News
When television news channels turn to outside experts to interview on the major stories of the moment, who do they…
WashPost: Americans See An 'Invasion' At The Border. But What Does That Mean?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of immigration. Read The Full Article.
Mapping News: The Hidden Geography Of The World's News Media
Ever since Culturomics 2.0 showcased the immense insights and hidden predictive power of the geography of the world's news media,…
A Model For The Future Of Digital Libraries
In many ways, GDELT offers a glimpse at the future of digital libraries and a model for how they might…
TV News Visual Explorer: TV Rain Archive Reaches 33,700 Broadcasts
After unveiling the new Internet Archive Television News Archive's TV Rain Archive in the TV News Visual Explorer yesterday, we're…
Student Debt Burst Into Television News Attention Starting In October 2011
With student debt back in the news, looking back over the past decade, it first leapt into television news prominence…
Trump Era Popularized The Term "False Flag"
The term "false flag" rarely appeared on television news until early 2017 after Donald Trump's election, spiking in January 2021…
TV News Visual Explorer: Announcing The TV Rain Archive
We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive, the historical archive…
One Year After Afghanistan Fell To The Taliban It Remains Absent From Television News
On the one-year anniversary of Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, the country remains largely absent from television news. Within two…
Friends, Foes, Or “Frenemies”: Intercountry Relations And Cross-Border Acquisitions
We draw on the political institutions approach and relational embeddedness perspective to advance a relational theory of policy risk. We…
Come See GDELT At The Misinformation Village @ DEF CON 30
Kalev will be speaking later today in a prerecorded talk at the The Misinformation Village @ DEF CON 30 in…
CNN And MSNBC Have Given More Airtime To Fox News' Dominion Voting Falsehoods More Than Fox News Itself
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox News prominently promoted the false conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting voting machines…
World Elephant Day: Using GDELT To Track Global Wildlife Crime
In honor of World Elephant Day, we look back on how GDELT has been used to track global wildlife crime….
Media Coverage Of Layoffs Is Increasing Slightly
In the aftermath of the 2008 recession, mentions of layoffs increased on television news, but dropped sharply in early 2013…
NYTimes Magazine: Why Isn't Biden Ever on TV?
An article in today's New York Times Magazine uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of President Biden. Read…
Consumer Expectations Of Inflation: Comparing Media & Survey Summaries
Last week we explored how both television news coverage and Google Trends search interest in inflation were decreasing, suggesting a…
Television News Coverage Of Monkeypox Picks Up Slightly
While the WHO was informed of a UK monkeypox case on May 7th, BBC News London did not cover the…
Leveraging Semantic Property For Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) have become an effective tool for numerous intelligent applications. Due to their incompleteness, TKG embedding methods…
International Interactions: Forecasting Change In Conflict Fatalities With Dynamic Elastic Net
This paper by Fulvio Attinà, Marcello Carammia and Stefano M. Iacus utilizes GDELT as an input to conflict forecasting: This…
Taiwan Is Getting The Most TV News Attention Of The Past Decade
Domestic TV news mentions of Taiwan in the US picked up in April 2020 and have reached their highest levels…
The Fact-Checkers Have Spoken: We Are Not In A Recession
Last week, Facebook and its fact-checking partners began applying a warning label to some posts claiming that the American economy…