Author: Kalev Leetaru
Twitter 'Misinformation' Demo App Stirs Free Speech Questions
Last week, NBC reported on a leaked internal demonstration app from Twitter showcasing one of the company’s ideas for fact-checking…
Socialism Mentions Hit Record Highs On Television News
As Roger Macdonald points out, mentions of "socialism" are at record highs on television news, despite it being 8 years…
A Global Golden Retriever Detector For Television News
There are more than 11,000 unique objects and activities in the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0's more than 470 million…
Using BigQuery To Surface The Dyadic Country Interactions Defining The Last 40 Years
What if, with a single SQL query, we could surface the most common dyadic relationships defining each year of the…
A Timeline Of 40 Years Of Ukrainian Protest Intensity
Using the new modernized example Standard SQL queries we posted earlier today, what can we learn about the monthly protest…
Modernizing The 'Top Relationships By Year' And 'Protest Intensity' Queries From Legacy To Standard BigQuery SQL
In our original Google Cloud Platform blog post about GDELT, we offered two example SQL queries to get users started:…
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…
'Him' Vs 'Her': Gendered Pronouns On Television News
As society increasingly explores the concept of "gender" beyond the traditional binary "male" and "female" labels, how much is the…
Axios: Bloomberg Finally Upends The National Conversation
Axios' look at the state of media coverage of the 2020 race. Read The Full Article.
Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking The Coronavirus Through Google's Natural Language API
What has the Coronavirus outbreak looked like through the eyes of television news and how well has Google's Natural Language…
Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Master VGEG 2.0 Captioning Entity List
Last week we released the Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0, a compilation of more than 477 million entity annotations…
In TV Mentions, Bloomberg Surges To The Fore
Three months ago, Michael Bloomberg was the ninth most mentioned Democratic presidential candidate despite having just entered the race, Joe…
NowThisNews: #WhereIsWarren? Voters Wonder At Candidate’s Exclusion From Polls and Media Coverage
A look at Warren's fading media profile. Read The Full Article.
Chicago Tribune: How Elizabeth Warren's Camp Is Seeking To Regain The Spotlight
The Chicago Tribune reprinted the New York Times' look at the state of Elizabeth Warren's 2020 effort. Read The Full…
Boston.com: How Elizabeth Warren's Camp Is Seeking To Regain The Spotlight
Boston.com reprinted the New York Times' look at the state of Elizabeth Warren's 2020 effort. Read The Full Article.
NYTimes: How Elizabeth Warren's Camp Is Seeking To Regain The Spotlight
Today's New York Times references Elizabeth Warren's current fourth-place status in television news mentions using the Campaign 2020 tracker. Read…
A Master Dataset Of Google Earth Appearances On Evening Television News
Following up on our analysis from earlier today tracking television news appearances of Google Earth, we've released the underlying CSV…
Tracing How Television News Uses Google Earth To Illustrate Global Events
Over the past decade Google Earth has been a mainstay of American television news, helping audiences understand the geographic context…
Comparing Human And Machine Transcripts: A List Of Common Differences
How do the automated television news transcripts generated by Google's Cloud Video API compare with the human-produced captioning viewers see?…
Using Automated Speech Recognition To Precision Align Human Closed Captioning
Human-generated closed captioning remains the gold standard for live television news broadcasts, but the use of human transcriptionists to listen…
Trump's Tweets Aren't Getting The Same Television News Attention They Did In 2017
President Trump has eschewed many of the traditional presidential communications norms to speak directly to the world through his @realDonaldTrump…
Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Master Visual Entity List
Google's Cloud Video API recognizes an incredible range of objects and activities, allowing the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 to…
Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Now Live Updating
The Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0 announced yesterday is now live updating every 30 minutes, with most shows being…
What Google's Natural Language API Sees In A Decade Of Television News: The Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0
What might it be like to use deep learning algorithms to non-consumptively "read" the closed captioning transcripts of more than…