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GEN4: Compute Engine + VPC PGA

GDELT's new GEN4 crawling architecture makes extensive use of the immense leaps in both performance and capability of GCP's Compute…

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Identifying Trending Television News Narratives In Realtime With The GCP Timeseries Insights API & Video AI API

Over nearly a decade, GDELT has been collaborating with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to explore how advanced non-consumptive computational…

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Identifying Breaking Online News Stories Across The World In Realtime With The GCP Timeseries Insights API & Natural Language API

Captured within GDELT's vast realtime archives are the patterns of Planet Earth. Last June we explored how Google Cloud’s new Timeseries Insights API,…

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Which SSL Certificate Providers Do News Outlets Use? A Global Inventory.

As the global online news landscape has increasingly made the transition to HTTPS, what are the SSL certificate providers they…

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Web NGrams 3.0 Tutorials Roundup

Over the past month we've created a series of tutorials showcasing how GDELT's massive new Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset…

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Historical 2020-Present Custom Search & Thematic Scanning Using Web NGrams 3.0

With the Web NGrams 3.0's new January 1, 2020 to present historical backfile, you can now perform retroactive historical keyword…

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Realtime Global Massively Multilingual Horizon Scanning Using GDELT's New Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset

How can GDELT's new Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset be used for horizon scanning? With the release of this new…

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Announcing The New Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset

We are tremendously excited to announce today the launch of the new Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset! The original Web…

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Announcing The GDELT Article List & RSS Feed

We are excited to announce today a new dataset called the GDELT Article List (GAL), based on the Global Embedded…

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New November 2021 GKG 2.0 Themes Lookup

Advanced users are frequently interested in a list of all of the themes found in the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph…

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Tips For Building A Query Service Using The New Global Similarity Graph Document Embeddings

Given all of the interest and questions we've heard about how to build production-scale query services using the new Global…

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Using The GSG Document Embeddings To Visualize Story Clusters Using Gephi

How might we visualize the narrative clusters of a given topic using the new Global Similarity Graph Document Embeddings dataset? Let's…

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Unescaping Article Titles In The GKG 2.0

Since September 2019 the GKG 2.0 has included the title of each article in a "<PAGE_TITLE></PAGE_TITLE>" block in the "Extras"…

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Using GSG TV News Embeddings For Multimodal Search: Search A Decade Of TV News Using An Online News Article

Earlier today we demonstrated how to use our new GSG TV News Embeddings to semantically search television news for references…

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Fact Checking Television: Using Universal Sentence Encoder Embeddings To Scan News For Fact Check Claims At Scale

Earlier today we unveiled the Global Similarity Graph Television News Sentence Embeddings, a massive new dataset of 189 million sentence-level…

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Announcing The Global Similarity Graph Television News Sentence Embeddings Using The Universal Sentence Encoder

Today we are tremendously excited to announce the debut of the Global Similarity Graph Television News Sentence Embeddings, a realtime…

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Announcing The Global Similarity Graph Document Embeddings Using The Universal Sentence Encoder

Today we are tremendously excited to announce the debut of the Global Similarity Graph Document Embeddings, a realtime database of…

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Mapping The Media: A Geographic Lookup Of GDELT's Sources 2015-2021

Three years ago we showed how a single SQL query in BigQuery could process the entire GKG 2.0 and compile…

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Global Similarity Graph: Visualizing Language Overlap

Using the new Global Similarity Graph, a single SQL query can visualize language overlap using BigQuery + Gephi. Note that since…

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Global Similarity Graph: Visualizing How Similar News Websites Are

Using the new Global Similarity Graph, a single SQL query can visualize story overlap between news outlets using BigQuery + Gephi….

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Global Similarity Graph: Finding "Articles Like This"

Using the new Global Similarity Graph, it is trivial to find articles similar to a given URL. Using the BigQuery…

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Announcing The Global Similarity Graph

We are tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the GDELT Global Similarity Graph (GSG), which computes the pairwise…

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Identifying Breaking News Stories Across The World With Google’s Timeseries Insights API

GDELT today encompasses more than 8.4 trillion datapoints spanning global events and narratives in 152 languages across text, television, radio…

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Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG) Reaches 550GB Of JSON-LD

For those interested in exploring how Schema.org and JSON-LD are being used across the world's news websites, the Global Embedded…