The first step in breaking a television news broadcast down into "stories" is to segment it into distinct visual "scenes"….

A common methodology for detecting commercials in television news is to scan for the tell-tale "fade to black" used to…

What might it look like to construct a research initiative and incubator that would support collaborative multidisciplinary multimodal research into…

While much of the work on television news has focused on speech recognition and caption search, through the Visual Global…

How accurate is the open-source tesseract OCR package on television news and could it be used to recover a reasonable…

This analysis uses GDELT as a source for issue cycle media analysis around terrorism events in Africa: Analyzing issue cycles…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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