Month: September 2024
Compiling A List Of All Non-News Broadcasts In The TV News Archive From Business Channels Over The Past Decade: Part 2
Last month we compiled a list of distinct show names marked as non-news from each of the three business news…
WashPost: Mark Robinson Offers Up The 2024 Version Of The I-Was-Hacked Defense
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Mark Robinson. Read The Full Article.
Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Track Historical Backfilling Progress
With our new BigQuery + Bigtable digital twin over our GCS archive, we can trivially compile ongoing inventories of our…
Experiments With CCExtractor Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin
In December 2020 we unveiled a massive new initiative in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive to catalog…
Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Make Date-Based Random Samples For Content Analysis & Testing
A key concept in "content analysis" methodologies over large temporally diverse archives is the notion of time-based random samples: creating…
Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Identify Missing Channels
One of the most powerful aspects of our BigQuery-analyzable Bigtable-based GCS digital twin is the capability it makes possible to…
CJR: Can Kamala Harris Use The Debate To Keep Her Media Momentum?
Meghnad Bose and Dhrumil Mehta examine media coverage of Kamala Harris in a piece for Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Read…
How Much Attention Have Presidential Year Debates Gotten On TV News Over The Years? Hint: 2012 Was The Recent Peak
How much attention do presidential year debates get on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of "debate" across…
How Are Business Television News Channels Covering Bitcoin & Crypto?
The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime (in 15 sec blocks) across Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business over…
Leveraging Bigtable For Highly Scalable Digital Twin Architectures
As we continue to load our entire historical GCS archive into our Bigtable digital twin, BigTable's remarkable scalability has allowed…
The Covid-Era Focus On "Experts" Has Faded
During the pandemic, mentions of "experts" were everywhere as news media emphasized the credentials and expertise of those they interviewed….
Scaling In The Cloud: Storing Billions Of Files Totaling Petabytes In GCS
One of the most remarkable aspects of working at "cloud scale" is the sheer scalability of the modern public cloud….