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Fear-Anger Cycles: Governmental And Populist Politics Of Emotion

A new research initiative by Jorg Friedrichs and Niklas Stoehr at Oxford University is comparing tweets and news coverage from…

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CJR: MSNBC Public Editor: Why The Show Must Not Go On

CJR's MSNBC Public Editor Maria Bustillos used the TV Explorer to track mentions of "corrupt republicans" and "corrupt democrats" on…

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An Example Of Using The New Television News Advertisement Inventories To Filter A News Broadcast

Earlier this week we announced the forthcoming release of a new dataset inventorying all of the advertising airtime in the…

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Research At Archives Scale

As part of our incredible ongoing research collaborations with the Internet Archive, we frequently work at collections scale, running complex…

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'Dr.' Jill Biden? Critics of Op-Ed Often Omitted the Title

Last week an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Epstein provoked a heated debate over the use…

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Learning from History: Modeling Temporal Knowledge Graphs With Sequential Copy-Generation Networks

This interesting analysis uses GDELT as a source temporal knowledge graph: Large knowledge graphs often grow to store temporal facts…

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Global Embedded Metadata Graph Updates And Backfile Coming Soon

A number of our announced updates to the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, including automatic JSON-LD correction and enhanced handling of…

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High Resolution Advertisement Exclusion Inventories Coming For Television News

When exploring datasets like the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0, one key challenge in interpreting the results lies in being…

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A Glimpse Behind The Scenes At How We Perform Mass Ingest And Transformation Workflows In the Cloud

How do we orchestrate our mass ingest and transformation workflows when performing some of our largest analyses? Once data is…

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Climate Change Soars Back Onto Television News

Climate change all but disappeared from television news in early March as the pandemic spread, but since August has been…

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CNN Mentions Death More Than 2.5x MSNBC And Fox News Combined This Year

Fox News received criticism yesterday for failing to devote substantial airtime to recent increases in Covid-19 deaths. Yet how does its lack…

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"Mass Transit" Has Disappeared From Television News Since 2017

Despite being a centerpiece of the Green New Deal and a Democratic priority, mentions of the words "mass transit" and…

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Immigration Has All But Disappeared From Television News

Immigration was once one of the centerpieces of Donald Trump's administrative priorities, but suddenly in September 2019 it all but…

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Mentions Of "Men" Versus "Women" On Television News

As gender diversity issues have attracted more attention in recent years, it is worth noting that the timeline below of…

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Most Mentions Of Food Banks On Television News In A Decade

Over the past decade, food banks have received only a small number of monthly mentions on television news. Beginning with…

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Global Geographic Graph Reaches 1.9 Billion Entries

The Global Geographic Graph running 2017-present has reached 1.9 billion records! Learn More.

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Television News Mentions Of Unemployment Decreases

Mentions of unemployment dropped sharply from late 2012 as the 2008 recession recovered, but began to pick up again in…

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"Small" Versus "Large" On Television News

Mentions of the word "large" have decreased slightly over the past decade, but interestingly, mentions of the word "small" were…

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Television News Hasn't Talked About The Deficit Since 2013

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime mentioning the word "deficit" across the three major general news channels…

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Inflation Mentions At Decade-Long Low

Despite growing concerns about future inflation, mentions on general television news are at a decade-long low and have been at…

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Mentions Of "Conservative" Versus "Liberal" On Television News

As our nation is increasingly politically polarized, it is worth asking whether there are major differences in the usage of…

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Mentions Of "Monopoly" Increase – On Fox News

Mentions of the words "monopoly" and "monopolies" have increased steadily on Fox News since mid-2016, while CNN and MSNBC mentioned…

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Global Relationship Graph Reaches 400 Million Relationships

We're excited to announce that the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, which debuted just over a month ago,…

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"President-Elect Biden" Versus "President-Elect Trump" On Television News

The timeline below shows the daily percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning "President Elect Trump" after…