The GDELT Project

Tableau Iron Viz 2015: Bias In The News Media

Matt Chamber's fascinating entry in last week's Tableau 2015 Iron Viz Championship at the MGM Grand focuses on using the emotional dimensions of GDELT to assess bias in global news coverage. Selecting an event actor yields a ranking of sources by article versus event sentiment, a scatterplot, and a treemap by article. You can access his interactive dashboard and experiment with it yourself.