Author: Kalev Leetaru
Enhanced 'Last 72 Hours' Option For Television Explorer
As researchers and journalists are increasingly using the Television Explorer to track coverage of and reaction to fast-moving events, there…
Leeds: A Global Struggle: Worker Protest In The Platform Economy
The new Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest "provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation…
Video AI: Motion OCR Recovery Of Damaged Text
Google's Cloud Video API is extremely capable at recovering even highly degraded onscreen text from television news broadcasts. Historically, OCR…
Video AI: The Trade-offs Of Translating Frame-Level Annotations Into Per-Second Aggregations
Video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API typically annotate video content at the level of the individual frame, reporting…
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…
WashPost: Their 2018 Win Was Historic. What Have These Democrats Accomplished?
The Washington Post's look at the 2018 freshman House class includes a look at how much media coverage key members…
Recovering Degraded Onscreen Text From Television News: Deepwater Horizon
Yesterday we showed how Google's Cloud Video API was able to seamlessly identify onscreen Arabic text in an ABC Evening…
Multilingual OCR From Evening Television News: Arabic On ABC
As we explore how deep learning video understanding systems like Google's Cloud Video API can help us reimagine how machines…
Blocked March for Life Tweets Raise Free Speech Concerns
In the lead-up to last week’s March for Life rally, Twitter generated controversy for censoring at least two different pro-life…
Greater Good Gathering 3.0
Kalev will be speaking at the Greater Good Gathering 3.0 next week at Columbia University on a panel alongside Director…
Discerning Certainty Amidst Chaos: The Conflicting Cacophony Of News
One of the greatest challenges in attempting to monitor the entire planet lies in discerning certainty amidst the chaotic conflicting…
World Bank: How Technology & Data Are Transforming Sustainable Development
Kalev spoke to the World Bank today on how GDELT's global datasets can be used to help understand global narratives…
Identifying Contradictory Climate Change Narratives Using Cloud Natural Language & The Climate Change Narratives Dataset
Moving beyond simple Q&A about climate change, could we use Google's Cloud Natural Language API and our new Climate Change…
Using Cloud Natural Language & The Climate Change Narratives Dataset For Q&A About Climate Change
With yesterday's massive new dataset containing the URLs and context snippets of 6.3 million English language online news articles about…
Four Massive Datasets Charting The Global Climate Change News Narrative 2009-2020
Over the past two days we have released a set of four massive new datasets designed to fundamentally advance the…
A New Contextual Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives: 6.3M English News URLs With Contextual Snippets 2015-2020
We are tremendously excited today to announce the fourth in our series of climate change narrative datasets, covering television, linguistics and…
Can 'Cahoots' Be Anything Other Than 'In Cahoots'?
The Wall Street Journal's Ben Zimmer yesterday traced how the word "cahoots" has evolved over time, noting among other things…
A New Multilingual Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives: 4.1 Million News URLs In 63 Languages 2015-2020
For those interested in exploring the global news narrative around climatic change, we are excited to announce today a massive…
Measuring a Trump-Size Mark on the Cable News Universe
The presidency of Donald Trump has not only divided the public, it has fractured the media landscape. The tone of…
A New Part Of Speech Dataset To Explore Climate Change Narratives In English Online News 2016-2020
Yesterday we released a massive new dataset comprised of all 95,000 mentions of climate change on television news on CNN,…
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…
Understanding The Global Multilingual World Through Deep Learning & Data
Kalev presented again to the Wharton School today in DC on the state of GDELT and leveraging deep learning and…
A New Dataset For Exploring Climate Change Narratives On Television News 2009-2020
Climate change has emerged over the past decade as a major societal fault line, with the public narrative becoming a…
Climate Change Coverage Steadily Increases On BBC Compared With CNN/MSNBC/Fox News
Climate change has been attracting a growing number of headlines of late, but interestingly, as the timeline below shows, the…