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Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Deeply Analyzing A Week Of Today's Trends On Capitol Hill Reports & Making A Map Of Congressional Legislation
Each morning we publish a free daily email newsletter, Today’s Trends on Capitol Hill, that explores how advanced "reasoning" AI…
Parallel Narratives: July 3rd Through The Eyes Of CNN, MSNOW & Fox News
What would it look like to use Gemini and Nano Banana Pro to produce an infographic conveying the tone and…
Using Gemini To Prototype The Future Of The Television News Visual Explorer
As we ramp up to relaunch the Television News Explorer and the new Visual Explorer, we've been thinking a lot…
Gemini For Museums: Visualizing A Collection Vision Document As Images, Movies & Even A Mockup Museum Exhibition
Thus far, our "Gemini for Museums" series has focused on using Gemini as a research tool to assess, catalog and…
Gemini For Museums: Translating Hentenius's Preface From The 1576 Bevilacqua Folio Bible Printing Of The Louvain Vulgate
Some books become literal embodiments of pivotal historical moments. For the first thousand years after the Bible was translated into…
Gemini For Museums: Paleographics Gemini-Style & Transcribing Handwritten Notes In A 500-Year-Old Book
Antiquitarian books often contain numerous handwritten annotations in various scripts, inks, handwritings and eras. A 500-year-old book like this stunning…
Search At Spanner Scale: Briefly Burst Autoscaling To A Petascale Spanner Instance To Absorb A Massive Ingest Surge
Earlier this week we talked about the magic of Spanner's seamless autoscaling. As we've been ramping up loading the historical…
Gemini For Museums: Transcribing & Translating The Poems Of Holbein's Icones
Hans Holbein the Younger's Icones revolutionized biblical illustration and 16th-century visual storytelling, establishing a universal visual vocabulary for the Bible…
Using The New Web NGrams Dataset To Find Relevant Coverage
While the transition of our search and API infrastructure to Spanner is still underway, our existing legacy search infrastructure is…
Inaugural Economic Data Science Society Conference At The Banque de France
Kalev will be speaking in two weeks at the inaugural Economic Data Science Society (EDSS) Conference hosted at the Banque…
Search At Spanner Scale: Retrieval, Not Search, Is Now The Limiting Factor At Scale
One of the most methodologically interesting aspects of the AI revolution is the way in which it has fundamentally altered…
Search At Spanner Scale: The Magic Of Autoscaling For Bulk Ingest
One of the more magical aspects of fully managed database platforms like Spanner is their fully seamless and transparent autoscaling….
Gemini For Museums: Identifying An Unknown Page Tucked Away In A 328-Year-Old Book & Uncovering A Fascinating Historical News Artifact
Among the collection we are examining is a 1698 Amsterdam printing by Chez George Gallet of Louis Moreri's Le Grand Dictionaire…
Charting Ukraine, Russia, China, Gaza, Drones, Estonia, Inflation & "Experts" On US TV News 2009-Present
How much attention have Ukraine, Russia, China, Gaza, Drones, Estonia, Inflation & "Experts" received over the past decade and a…
Search At Spanner Scale: Optimizing The TV News Explorer's Timelines By Using A Fixed Count Limit
Spanner's raw hyperscale performance has been on full display as we've been benchmarking and tuning the schema and architectural design…
Charting The Era Of Trump Across CNN, MSNBC & Fox News 2015-Present
The timeline below charts the seconds of airtime each day in which the word "Trump" appeared somewhere in the onscreen…
Charting The Density Of "Live" News Coverage On CNN, MSNBC & Fox News 2009-Present
When American television news channels cover live breaking events, they typically display the word "LIVE" somewhere in the onscreen text…
How Much Airtime Is The Reflecting Pool Getting On TV News?
The timeline below tracks the total seconds of airtime across CNN, MSNOW and Fox News from May 1 to midday…
Turning GDELT & My Resume Into Hollywood Blockbuster Trailers Using Veo
What would it look like to turn the GDELT Project into a Hollywood blockbuster movie trailer using Veo? How about…
Turning Today's Trends On Capitol Hill Into A Podcast Using Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: First Experiments
What would it look like to turn our daily "Today's Trends On Capitol Hill" report into an audio podcast? Let's…
The Agentic Think Tank: Using Gemini Deep Research To Research & Write Policy Background Papers
As we continue our work exploring the concept of the Gemini-powered "Agentic Think Tank", today we look at using Gemini…
Turning The Draft US-Iran Agreement Into An Infographic With Gemini
What does it look like to use Gemini to turn the draft US-Iran agreement into an infographic? Here we explore…
Using Gemini & Google Web Search To Estimate The Terms That Correlate With A TV News Timeline
One of the most striking aspects of last week's experiments using Gemini to turn keyword searches into beautiful annotated timelines…
A Brief Glimpse At Spanner's Multilingual Tokenization: Multiple On-Screen Languages & Code Switching
GDELT monitors the world today in more than 400 written languages, while its collaborations with the Internet Archive's TV News…