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A Set Of Massive New Datasets For Cataloging Mask Appearances On Television News
As nations try to navigate the public health complexities of encouraging mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, a key question…
Medical Imagery On Television News Half Pre-Protest Levels
Medical imagery never constituted a major theme of television news COVID-19 coverage and fell sharply during the George Floyd protests,…
Little Television News Coverage Of Iowa Derecho Storm
A derecho storm caused widespread damage in Iowa last week but attracted little media attention, leading one Cedar Rapids Gazette…
Hellenic Shipping News: Goods Barometer Confirms Steep Drop In Trade But Hints At Nascent Recovery
An article in Hellenic Shipping News includes a GDELT graph of media coverage of "economic activity". Read The Full Article.
Tracking Trump’s Tweets On Television News In 2020
President Trump ushered in the “Twitter Presidency” delivering a steady daily stream of commentary, statements, policy announcements and other posts…
A Quick Measure Of Trump's Television Ads On CNN, MSNBC And Fox News In 2020 – Hourly Breakdown
Searching the onscreen text of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News thus far in 2020, it is possible to scan for…
A Quick Measure Of Trump's Television Ads On CNN, MSNBC And Fox News In 2020 – Timeline
Searching the onscreen text of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News thus far in 2020, it is possible to scan for…
Fox News Keeps Covering Portland While CNN And MSNBC Lose Interest
Fox News was the first to turn its gaze towards the unrest in Portland. CNN and MSNBC soon joined it,…
Compiling A Dataset Of OnAir Trump Tweets On Television News In 2020
From January 1, 2020 through August 17, 2020, there were 97,278 total seconds of airtime in which the text "@realDonaldTrump"…
World Economic Forum: Why Maps Matter In Our Response To COVID-19
An article on the World Economic Forum's blog today by SecDev Group founder Robert Muggah references GDELT and its applications…
DVZ: Welthandel: WTO Sieht Anzeichen Einer Erholung
DVZ included a chart of global media coverage of "economic activity" in a German-language article in its latest edition. Read…
FiveThirtyEight: Support For Black Lives Matter Surged During Protests, But Is Waning Among White Americans
Professor Michael Tesler looks at media coverage and polling support for BLM in a FiveThirtyEight article, showing television news coverage…
Selective Rules Enforcement Stirs Facebook Transparency Debate
Last week two major stories broke about the ways in which Facebook silently bends or waives its rules to accommodate…
Compiling A List Of Social Media Handles On Television News
What are the most common social media handles that have appeared on television news this year? Using a simple regular…
Multilingual Television News OCR: Chinese On BBC
Google's Cloud Video API is able to transcribe an incredibly rich list of languages in the onscreen text of television…
KTRH: Virtual Campaigns Forced to Navigate Social Media Censorship
Kalev appeared on KTRH radio in Houston, Texas to talk about social media censorship. Read The Full Article.
Comparing COVID-19 Mentions In Captioning Versus OCR
How does the signal provided by OCR compare with that of spoken word captioning when it comes to COVID-19 mentions?…
PLOS Computational Biology: Real-Time Estimation Of Disease Activity In Emerging Outbreaks Using Internet Search Information
This fascinating analysis uses the GKG as a signal for realtime alerting of emerging disease outbreaks. Understanding the behavior of…
Contextualizing Television Imagery With Reverse Web Image Search, Caption Analysis And EXIF Metadata
Google's Cloud Vision API offers reverse image search, allowing you to specify a still image and it will locate other…
Analytics India: How Google's Cloud Vision APIs Analyse A Decade Of Television News And Half A Billion Images
Analytics India covered Kalev's Computer Vision DevFest 2020 talk. Read The Full Article.
Cataloging "Defund The Police" Signs On Television News
The phrase "defund the police" leapt into the 2020 media lexicon in June with the George Floyd protests. Using the…
BBC News January – April 2020 VGEG Backfile Now Processed
Collaborating with the Media-Data Research Consortium under its Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative…
"Defund The Police" On Television News
The timeline below shows the sudden rise and fall of the phrase "defund the police" on television news since the…
Tracking White House Adviser Scott Atlas On Television News
Last week Dr. Scott Atlas joined the White House as a medical adviser on its COVID-19 efforts. The timeline below…