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New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
'Him' Vs 'Her': Gendered Pronouns On Television News
As society increasingly explores the concept of "gender" beyond the traditional binary "male" and "female" labels, how much is the…
Axios: Bloomberg Finally Upends The National Conversation
Axios' look at the state of media coverage of the 2020 race. Read The Full Article.
Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking The Coronavirus Through Google's Natural Language API
What has the Coronavirus outbreak looked like through the eyes of television news and how well has Google's Natural Language…
Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Master VGEG 2.0 Captioning Entity List
Last week we released the Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0, a compilation of more than 477 million entity annotations…
In TV Mentions, Bloomberg Surges To The Fore
Three months ago, Michael Bloomberg was the ninth most mentioned Democratic presidential candidate despite having just entered the race, Joe…
NowThisNews: #WhereIsWarren? Voters Wonder At Candidate’s Exclusion From Polls and Media Coverage
A look at Warren's fading media profile. Read The Full Article.
Chicago Tribune: How Elizabeth Warren's Camp Is Seeking To Regain The Spotlight
The Chicago Tribune reprinted the New York Times' look at the state of Elizabeth Warren's 2020 effort. Read The Full…
Boston.com: How Elizabeth Warren's Camp Is Seeking To Regain The Spotlight
Boston.com reprinted the New York Times' look at the state of Elizabeth Warren's 2020 effort. Read The Full Article.
NYTimes: How Elizabeth Warren's Camp Is Seeking To Regain The Spotlight
Today's New York Times references Elizabeth Warren's current fourth-place status in television news mentions using the Campaign 2020 tracker. Read…
A Master Dataset Of Google Earth Appearances On Evening Television News
Following up on our analysis from earlier today tracking television news appearances of Google Earth, we've released the underlying CSV…
Tracing How Television News Uses Google Earth To Illustrate Global Events
Over the past decade Google Earth has been a mainstay of American television news, helping audiences understand the geographic context…
Comparing Human And Machine Transcripts: A List Of Common Differences
How do the automated television news transcripts generated by Google's Cloud Video API compare with the human-produced captioning viewers see?…
Using Automated Speech Recognition To Precision Align Human Closed Captioning
Human-generated closed captioning remains the gold standard for live television news broadcasts, but the use of human transcriptionists to listen…
Trump's Tweets Aren't Getting The Same Television News Attention They Did In 2017
President Trump has eschewed many of the traditional presidential communications norms to speak directly to the world through his @realDonaldTrump…
Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Master Visual Entity List
Google's Cloud Video API recognizes an incredible range of objects and activities, allowing the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 to…
Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Now Live Updating
The Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0 announced yesterday is now live updating every 30 minutes, with most shows being…
What Google's Natural Language API Sees In A Decade Of Television News: The Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0
What might it be like to use deep learning algorithms to non-consumptively "read" the closed captioning transcripts of more than…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
Visual Narratives: A Fracturing of the Nightly News
When we tune into television news, how different are the stories and perspectives we see on each channel? This fundamental…
Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Visual Similarity At The Semantic Level
Historically, evaluating how "visually similar" two videos are has done through measuring the overlap of their color (and occasionally texture)…
Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Assessing The Semantic Visual Similarity Of A Decade Of Television Evening News
To what degree does the view we see of the world around us vary based on the media outlets we…
Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Using Semantic Visual Correlation To Identify Mislabeled Television Shows
The new Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 covers more than 19 million seconds of airtime across four stations spanning ten…
Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking Protests On The Evening News 2009-2020
Last year we used the pilot version of the Visual Global Entity Graph to track depictions of protests on the evening…