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Global Similarity Graph: 26.7% Of Links Are Cross-Language

In its first week of operation, the new Global Similarity Graph has recorded 3.6M similarity connections between articles, of which…

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Using BigQuery's UNNEST To Unroll Count-Based Datasets

Some applications like Google's Timeseries Insights API require that count-based datasets be unrolled since they examine discrete events. For example,…

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How Have Leaks And Whistleblowers Been Covered On Television News?

How have leaks and whistleblowers been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the terms across CNN, MSNBC…

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Is The Immigration Debate On Television News About People Or Borders?

When the immigration debate is covered on television news, is about physical walls or about people? The timeline below shows total mentions…

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How Has Representative Ilhan Omar Been Covered On Television News?

How has Representative Ilhan Omar Been Covered On Television News? The timeline below shows total mentions of her across CNN, MSNBC and Fox…

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How Has Homelessness Been Covered On Television News?

How has homelessness been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of it across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Global Numeric Graph Reaches 4 Billion Numeric Clauses

The Global Numeric Graph (GNG) has reached just over 4 billion numeric clauses across 152 languages back to January 1,…

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An Analysis Of Global News Coverage Of Refugees Using A Big Data Approach

This fascinating paper by researchers at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center explores media coverage of refugees: The number…

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Global Similarity Graph: Combining The GKG & GSG

How might we combine the new Global Similarity Graph with the Global Knowledge Graph to identify coverage related to a…

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Global Similarity Graph: Transitive Similarity Chaining

The Global Similarity Graph compares the articles published every 15 minutes against all other articles published in that 15 minutes…

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Global Similarity Graph: Visualizing Article Title Overlap

Using the new Global Similarity Graph, what can we learn about which news outlets have the highest overlap of articles with…

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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: Simple Top Story Finder

Using the new Global Similarity Graph, it takes only a single line of SQL to compile a list of the top…

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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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How Has Afghanistan Been Covered On Television News?

How has Afghanistan been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total monthly mentions of Afghanistan and the Taliban across CNN,…

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How Have Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Been Covered On Television News?

How have Iran's nuclear ambitions been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of "nuclear" near "Iran/Iranian" across CNN,…

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How Has The Phrase "Big Lie" Been Covered On Television News?

How has the phrase "Big Lie" been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the phrase across CNN,…

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The Guardian: From Viral Videos To Fox News: How Rightwing Media Fueled The Critical Race Theory Panic

The Guardian published an article today that mentions how television news has covered critical race theory using the Television Explorer….

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How Has The Phrase "Big Tech" Been Covered On Television News?

How has the phrase "Big Tech" been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of "Big Tech" across CNN,…

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Wikipedia: A Challenger's Best Friend? Utilizing Information-Seeking Behaviour Patterns To Predict US Congressional Elections

An examination of predictive signals for US congressional elections: Election prediction has long been an evergreen in political science literature….

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Looking Across Languages: The Dangers Of Agglomerative Storyline Clustering

One of the great promises of storyline clustering lies in its ability to draw the myriad threads of a complex…

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Using Big Global Database To Analyze Impact Of Web News To Tourist Visits Due To The 2017 Eruption Of Agung Volcano, Bali, Indonesia

A new article uses GDELT to examine the relationship between news coverage and tourism: Bali Island, well known as The…