How GDELT 3.0's Crawler Architecture Uses Realtime Global Network Monitoring To Learn And Adapt Its Global URL Routing
Historically, GDELT's crawlers have addressed transient errors simply by retrying a URL after a short pause or redirecting to a…
Television News Coverage Of The Suez Canal Freighter Versus The Egyptian Train Crash
This week there were two major stories involving Egypt. One involved a large cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal. The…
How Is Television News Covering Nigerian Kidnappings?
As kidnapping for ransom is becoming a growing business in Nigeria, how is the country being covered on television news? The chart below shows…
How Are The Rohingya Covered On Television News?
The chart below shows the total number of mentions of the Rohingya across television news since October 2017 (the start of the data)….
A Look At Immigration On Television News
The timeline below counts total mentions of immigration across television news of the past decade, showing a sharp rise since Biden's inauguration,…
Fox News Mentions "Monopolies" The Most
The timeline below counts the monthly mention of the words "monopoly" and "monopolies" across television news over the past decade, showing Fox…
"Globalization" Remains Largely Absent From Television News
The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare many of the challenges of globalized supply chains, yet as the timeline below shows, mentions of globalization…
Comparing Television News Coverage Of The Boulder And Atlanta Shootings
How did television news coverage of the Boulder and Atlanta shootings compare? The timeline below shows the total number of mentions of…
The NRA Has Disappeared On Television News Since The Start Of The Pandemic
The timeline below plots monthly mentions of the National Rifle Association across television news over the past decade. The NRA was rarely…
Comparing RCP's Opinion Poll Of Biden's First 100 Days With Media Coverage
RealClear Opinion Research recently released a look at public opinion around Biden's First 100 Days. How have some of the key topics been…
Video: US Television News Barely Mentions Equatorial Guinea Explosion
In the two weeks since a massive explosion killed nearly 100 people and injured more than 600, US television news channels have barely…
The Strange Case Of A Rise In HTTP 451 Errors & GDPR
Over the past two years we've witnessed a significant rise in the number of "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" errors…
WashPost: Republicans Are More Likely To Get The Vaccine After Hearing Trump Supports It. But They Haven't Heard It
The Washington Post's Philip Bump uses the TV Explorer to reference media coverage of Donald Trump receiving the Covid-19 vaccine….
"Death" Has Faded From CNN As It Has Wound Down Its Covid-19 Dashboard
Mentions of words relating to "death" have plummeted on CNN since the start of this year as it has phased out its…
Video: "Defund The Police" All But Disappears From Television News Except On Fox News
The timeline below shows total mentions of the phrase "defund the police" across television news since May of last year. Fox News…
Video: Minimum Wage Fades From Television News After February Surge
The timeline below shows the total monthly mentions across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the past decade that mentioned the minimum…
A 2016 Vision For "A Realtime Global Biosurveillance Platform for Mapping, Forecasting, Network Assessment and Community Outreach for Infectious Disease"
It is remarkable that just over a year and a quarter ago, on Dec. 31, 2019, BlueDot sent one of…
Video: How The Atlanta Shootings Have Been Contextualized On Television News
In the aftermath of the Atlanta shootings, several outlets have raised concerns over what they see as a rush to ascribe the alleged shooter's…
Communications Of The ACM: Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights Into Sustainable Development
This article in the Communications of the ACM describes how new kinds of data are being leveraged by the development…
Video: Project Geospatial & The Geography Of GDELT
Kalev was interviewed by Project Geospatial on the vast geographic landscape of GDELT! Watch The Interview.
Video: Biden's Air Force One Stumble Receives Little Attention Compared To Trump's "Ramp-Gate"
When President Donald Trump walked slowly down a ramp at West Point in June 2020, CNN told its viewers that "President Trump…
Comparing Mentions Of The Major Covid-19 Vaccines
The timeline below compares daily mentions of three well-known Covid-19 vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, showing how the first two peaked in…
Fauci Is Back On Television News Since The Inauguration
The timeline below shows the daily percentage of airtime across television news in which Dr. Fauci was mentioned since the start of…
US Television News Barely Mentions Equatorial Guinea Explosion
In the two weeks since a massive explosion killed nearly 100 people and injured more than 600, US television news channels have barely…