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Tracing Star Wars And Game Of Thrones On Television News

How much buzz is the final chapter in the 9-film Star Wars saga generating on television news? The timeline below…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Historical Backfile Updated With New Language Field

As the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) expands beyond English, earlier this week we updated its BigQuery table to add…

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Wikipedia Normalization For the Classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) G1 Baseline Dataset

One of the powerful features of the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) is its ability to normalize a wide range…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Expanding Beyond English

Unlike the rest of GDELT, which live translates from 65 languages, the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) processes only English…

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News Channel Chyrons Signal Diverging Narratives

In an era when Americans increasingly perceive a fractured Fourth Estate, television news has nonetheless largely focused on the same…

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Using Chyron Correlation To Detect Contested Narratives

One of the most interesting findings of our chyron correlation analysis is the way in which it so clearly surfaces…

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Chyron Correlation: Comparing Television News Chyrons Over The Past Three Years

Since August 2017, the Internet Archive's Television News Archive has extracted the chyrons of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC…

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Using The Inference API + Cloud Video To Uncover The Visual Correlations Of A Decade Of Television News

Rather than having the Cloud Inference API surface the most significant visual labels of each day from television news of…

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A By-Station Visual Chronology Of The Top Visual Themes Of Television Evening News 2010-2019 Using Cloud Video + Inference API

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts on…

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A By-Station Visual Chronology Of The Top Visual Themes Of Television Evening News 2010-2019 Using Cloud Video + BigQuery

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts on…

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Visualizing The Visual Entity Graph Of A Decade Of Television News

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts…

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Visualizing The Most Important Relationships of 2009-2019 Through The Eyes of TV News

Having had Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a decade of television news from the Internet Archive's Television…

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Tracing Merriam-Webster's Words Of The Year 2010-2019 In Television News

Looking back at the words choosen as the word of the year by Merriam-Webster each year over the past decade,…

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A Television News Chronology Of The Most Important Topics & Things 2009-2019 Using Cloud Inference & Natural Language APIs

Last week we unveiled the results of having Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a decade of television news…

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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 candidates. Read…

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A By-Station Topical Chronology Of A Decade Of Television News Using Cloud Natural Language & BigQuery

Earlier today we showed how the Cloud Natural Language API could read through a decade of television news transcripts to…

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A Topical Chronology Of A Decade Of Television News Using Cloud Natural Language & BigQuery

Last week we unveiled the results of having Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a…

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WashPost: Trump Takes Solace In Fox News Even As Impeachment Looms

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at a number of statistics relating to media coverage and trust in the media….

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A Master Spreadsheet Of The Visual Entities Of A Decade Of Evening Television News Broadcasts

When Google's Cloud Video API watches a decade of evening television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: The Military Is Depicted Less Today Than A Decade Ago

Using Google's Cloud Video API to watch a decade of television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: We're Seeing Police More And More In The News

Using Google's Cloud Video API to watch a decade of television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Tracing Coverage Of The "March For Our Lives" Movement

Climate change activism has dominated headlines this year, garnering magazine covers and award nominations. What became of last year's "March…

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Machines Watching Television News: Cataloging Protest Coverage On The Evening News 2010-2019

Earlier this week we released a massive new dataset in which Google's Cloud Video API watched a decade of evening…

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What a Decade of Data Says About the TV News Landscape

Americans of all political stripes increasingly perceive a fractured Fourth Estate in which news outlets report on parallel universes, covering…