Author: Kalev Leetaru
Stream Processing In The Cloud At Google Scale
Google's BigQuery platform is capable of brute-forcing its way through datasets with phenomenal speed. Performing a simple LIKE scan of…
A New Global Dataset For Exploring The Coronavirus Narrative In Worldwide English Online News
How is the world's news media covering the Coronavirus pandemic? Building on the massive television news narratives dataset we released…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
The Impact Of News Exposure On Collective Attention In The United States During The 2016 Zika Epidemic
Researchers Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti and Ciro Cattuto use the Television Explorer and Global Knowledge Graph to explore…
Aspectum: Here's How GIS Tackles Conflicts, Crises, And Fake News
Aspectum created an interactive geographic visualization of co-mentions of geographic locations in China and the US since December 2019 to…
A New Dataset For Exploring The Coronavirus Narrative On Television News
UPDATE 3/20/2020: This dataset has been vastly expanded and is now updating daily. How are television news stations…
'Social Distancing' Is The New Coronavirus Buzzword
The phrase "social distancing" has lept from epidemiological obscurity to household name over the past 30 days as the Coronavirus…
i24News: Is The Media Making The Coronavirus Crisis Worse By Fueling The Panic?
Kalev appeared on i24News English today to talk about his RealClearPolitics analysis of Coronavirus media coverage. View The Video.
WashPost: The Two Reasons Administration Officials And Trump Allies Are Linking The Coronavirus To China
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at how the media are framing Covid-19's origins. Read The Full Article.
Towards Data Science: Who Won Super Tuesday’s Media Coverage. Based On Data
A look at Super Tuesday through the Campaign 2020 Media Dashboard. Read The Full Article.
Big Think: Who's Profiting Most From The Coronavirus Outbreak?
Big Think uses data from the TV Explorer to examine the financial impact of the Coronavirus. Read The Full Article.
Coronavirus Coverage Levels Off At New Peak
Global news coverage of the Coronavirus outbreak has followed the standard epidemic coverage curve, with a late peak around Jan…
BBVA: Network Analysis Of Companies Mentioned Most In Coronavirus Coverage
BBVA's Coronavirus analysis includes this powerful network diagram of the co-mentions of companies in global news coverage of the outbreak…
Comparing Google Cloud Video API's Speech Recognition To Human Captioning Over A Decade Of Television News
Just how accurate is modern automatic speech recognition? Last year we compared a small week-long sample of machine and human-generated…
AI TV Explorer: Depictions Of Police On Television News Have Grown Over The Past Decade But Leveled Off Since 2015
Depictions of police officers on television news grew from 2010 to 2015 (though 2010 contains only half a year's data)…
Visually Searching A Decade Of Television Evening News Through AI: The AI Television Explorer Debuts!
We are enormously excited today to announce the debut of the AI Television Explorer, powered by the TV AI API…
Climate Change Through Imagery: Global Warming's Polar Bears Giving Way To Climate Crisis' Deserts
Polar bears have long been the iconic face of a changing climate, but are they giving way to deserts and…
Coronavirus Coverage Mentioning "Death" Less
Despite the Coronavirus' continued spread, media coverage is mentioning the specter of death less and less in that coverage. Similar…
Coronavirus Versus The 2020 Race
As we noted earlier this week, the 2020 election has gotten more attention on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News than…
Business And International Television News Covers Coronavirus More Than CNN/MSNBC/FOX
The timeline below shows how Al Jazeera, BBC News, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fox News and MSNBC have covered…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
Axios: Coronavirus Panic Sells As Alarmist Information Flies On Social Media
Axios' look at social media coverage of the Coronavirus includes a brief look at the state of television coverage of…
How Trump's Video Tweets Become Television News Footage
Looking through galleries of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts over the past 5 years of all the places…
Television 2.0 AI API Debuts!
We're tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the new Television 2.0 AI API, which uses computer vision through…