Author: Kalev Leetaru
Embedding Models: Clustering COVID-19 Versus "Poxes"
Following on our "mpox" versus "monkeypox" experiment, let's use that same embedding visualization template to cluster a broader set of…
Embedding Models: Revisiting Multilingual Embedding Through Visualization
Using our new embedding visualization template, let's revisit our multilingual embedding experiment and visualize how each embedding model clusters our…
Embedding Models: Capitalization & Knowledge Cutoffs Part 2
Yesterday we introduced a Colab notebook template for visualizing embedding models and explored the impact of capitalization, word spacing and…
A Template For Visually Comparing Embedding Models + Exploring Capitalization, Spacing & Knowledge Cutoffs
Embeddings are designed to look beyond the words on a page to the semantic concepts they represent, allowing a search…
Visual Explorer: New Offset Referencing For Archive URL Alignment
Earlier this month we introduced direct ImageID referencing to the Visual Explorer, allowing you to specify a specific ImageID for…
Multilingual Embedding For LLM External Memory & Semantic Search: Universal Sentence Encoder Family, LaBSE & Vertex AI Embeddings for Text
Embeddings have emerged in recent years as the go-to approach for semantic search. With the rise of Large Language Models…
Generative AI: Translation APIs Versus LLM For Social Media Translation
Large Language Models can perform a wide array of tasks, including textual translation. Given the widespread availability of existing dedicated…
The Predictability Of Global Events: How An LLM Predicted The Outcome Of Türkiye's Presidential Election
With the Turkish presidential election this past weekend, we wanted to test how well some of the major commercial Large…
The Language Bias Of Large Language Models: Why Myanmar Is 1300% More Costly Than English In GPT-3
Large Language Models (LLM's) like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard interpret language not as discrete words, but as word-parts known…
Connecting The TV Explorer & Visual Explorer For Seamless CSPAN Search & Legislative Deep Linking
Earlier this week we unveiled a powerful new interface to CSPAN as part of our Visual Explorer Lenses initiative. When…
Semantic Narrowing: Towards A Calculable Descriptive Statistic Associated With Press Freedom And Authoritarianism
This paper proposes a novel measure for operationalizing authoritarianism: the narrowing of semantic dispersion. This paper defines semantic dispersion as…
Tomorrow: Connecting The TV Explorer & Visual Explorer
Stay tuned for a major new announcement about our work creating new interface metaphors connecting the TV Explorer and Visual…
Language Models Can Improve Event Prediction By Few-Shot Abductive Reasoning
Large language models have shown astonishing performance on a wide range of reasoning tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether…
CJR: How The Media Is Covering ChatGPT
The Two Center has an article in today's Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) exploring how the media has covered ChatGPT and…
Tracking a Year of Tucker Carlson on Russian TV
Until his departure from Fox News last month, Tucker Carlson was a regular fixture on Russian television news, with clips…
Today: Google IO Connect In Miami
Kalev will be at Google's I/O Connect event in Miami today – reach out if you're in town!
FiveThirtyEight: The Rise, Fall And Potential Resurrection Of Ron DeSantis
FiveThirtyEight explores DeSantis' campaign trajectory, including an analysis of media coverage. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: New Broadcast Time Offset Referencing
Last week we introduced a new parameter to the Visual Explorer that allows referencing a specific thumbnail frame in a…
Visual Explorer: Heads Of State Embedding Database For Searching Russian Television News
Last week we demonstrated searching an entire year of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television news for appearances of current and…
Hyperlinking Television: Connecting Our Nation's Legislation To The Legislative Process Via Deep Linking CSPAN
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive and the Media-Data Research Consortium, we are tremendously excited today to…
Visual Explorer: Scripting Using The New Channel Inventory JSON File
Yesterday we announced the new Visual Explorer Channel Inventory JSON file for programmatic discovery. As a simple example of how…
Visual Explorer: New Channel Inventory JSON File For Programmatic Discovery
To make it easier to programmatically interact with the Visual Explorer and its new Visual Explorer Lenses metaphor, we have…
GCP Blog: Bringing The Power Of Large Models To Google Cloud's Speech API
We are incredibly excited to be cited in the Google Cloud Blog announcement today of Cloud Speech's USM Chirp! Read…
WashPost: Ted Cruz Figures Out A Way To Guzzle New Bud Light Headlines
The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of television news coverage of Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney. Read The…