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Using The Global Embedded Metadata Graph To Explore Trends In JSON-LD

How can we use the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph to explore some of the trends in metadata usage in a day…

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Announcing The Global Embedded Metadata Graph

We are enormously excited today to announce the debut of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG), which records the hidden…

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Comparing The 2009-2020 Readability Scores Of CNN, MSNBC And Fox News

Yesterday we unveiled a massive new dataset of television news readability scores for 23 stations spanning portions of the past…

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The Methodological Challenges Of Interpreting Readability Scores For Spoken Word Television News Transcripts

Yesterday we announced the new Television News Readability Scores Dataset using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. One…

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Television News Readability Scores Dataset 2009-2020

UPDATE: See this deep dive on the influence of captioner shifts and the difference between transcripts and captioning in results….

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Evaluating The "Readability" Of Online COVID-19 News Coverage

Using our massive new dataset of readability scores of worldwide English language news coverage of 2020, how might we evaluate…

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Readability Scores Dataset For Worldwide Online News Coverage in 2020

As we seek new ways of assessing and understanding how news conveys the world each day, one thread of our…

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Visualizing The Network Of Image Sharing Across The Global News Landscape

Each image in the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is analyzed by Google Cloud Vision API's "WebEntities" that performs the…

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A Compilation Of All EXIF Tags In The Visual Global Knowledge Graph In 2020

Since its launch in December 2015, the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has analyzed more than 600 million images from…

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Global Relationship Graph: Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot

This past July we debuted the Global Relationship Graph (GRG), an experimental new initiative in codifying the factual claims and relationships made…

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Keyword Searching Television News Trump Tweet Appearances

Last week we released an aligned dataset of Trump tweets appearing on television news using the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0…

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Visualizing A Year Of Trump's Television Tweets

What would it look like to take all 139,450 seconds of airtime across  from Jan. 1 of this year through…

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Announcing The Radio News Ngram Dataset

UPDATE (9/26/2020): The Radio News NGram dataset has been massively expanded! This past June we unveiled the Television News Ngram 2.0…

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EWA2020: Reimagining Web Archiving As A Realtime Global Open Research Platform: The GDELT Project

Kalev will be speaking at the inaugural Engaging With Web Archives (EWA) 2020 conference, held at the National University of…

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Compiling A List Of Social Media Handles On Television News

What are the most common social media handles that have appeared on television news this year? Using a simple regular…

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Quantifying The COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative Through TV & Radio News Analysis

We are tremendously excited to announce that the Media-Data Research Consortium (M-DRC), whom GDELT has been working closely with to…

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Announcing The Global Relationship Graph

One of the great "grand challenges" of the field of natural language understanding lies in teaching machines to truly understand…

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Using The Global Frontpage Graph To Trace Homepage Links Mentioning "Masks"

Using a single query in BigQuery it is trivial to process the complete 208-billion-link Global Frontpage Graph to examine how…

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Compiling A Massive Multilingual News-Based Stopword List

UPDATE (7/10/2020): Covid-19 has so dominated news coverage of the past half-year that "coronavirus" and "Covid-19" appear in some of…

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Building Your Own Home Video Recording & Production Studio: Behind The Scenes Of Our New GDELT Tutorials!

With the third video in our new GDELT Tutorial series launching this past weekend, we now have tutorials for Television…

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Starting Points For Using GDELT To Understand Environmental & Wildlife Issues From Climate Change To Poaching

GDELT has long been used to understand environmental issues, from early work around climatic change to our well-known 2015 map…

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Anxiety On The Rise Again On Television News

The timeline below uses Colin Martindale's Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID) "anxiety" measure to assess the intensity of anxiety on CNN…

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Running The 'Trump Is' Analysis At Scale Using The TV News Ngrams 2.0

This past November we unveiled a fascinating look at how Donald Trump has been framed in the media since he…

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A 3.5 Year 634-Million Article Historical Backfile For The Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary

We announced yesterday that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary was now a part of GCAM and being applied to all…