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BBVA: Network Analysis Of Companies Mentioned Most In Coronavirus Coverage

BBVA's Coronavirus analysis includes this powerful network diagram of the co-mentions of companies in global news coverage of the outbreak…

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Comparing Google Cloud Video API's Speech Recognition To Human Captioning Over A Decade Of Television News

Just how accurate is modern automatic speech recognition? Last year we compared a small week-long sample of machine and human-generated…

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AI TV Explorer: Depictions Of Police On Television News Have Grown Over The Past Decade But Leveled Off Since 2015

Depictions of police officers on television news grew from 2010 to 2015 (though 2010 contains only half a year's data)…

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Visually Searching A Decade Of Television Evening News Through AI: The AI Television Explorer Debuts!

We are enormously excited today to announce the debut of the AI Television Explorer, powered by the TV AI API…

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Climate Change Through Imagery: Global Warming's Polar Bears Giving Way To Climate Crisis' Deserts

Polar bears have long been the iconic face of a changing climate, but are they giving way to deserts and…

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Coronavirus Coverage Mentioning "Death" Less

Despite the Coronavirus' continued spread, media coverage is mentioning the specter of death less and less in that coverage. Similar…

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Coronavirus Versus The 2020 Race

As we noted earlier this week, the 2020 election has gotten more attention on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News than…

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Business And International Television News Covers Coronavirus More Than CNN/MSNBC/FOX

The timeline below shows how Al Jazeera, BBC News, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fox News and MSNBC have covered…

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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…

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Axios: Coronavirus Panic Sells As Alarmist Information Flies On Social Media

Axios' look at social media coverage of the Coronavirus includes a brief look at the state of television coverage of…

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How Trump's Video Tweets Become Television News Footage

Looking through galleries of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news broadcasts over the past 5 years of all the places…

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Television 2.0 AI API Debuts!

We're tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the new Television 2.0 AI API, which uses computer vision through…

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Media Matters: Here Are The Democratic Candidates Who TV News Has Talked About The Most In 2020

Media Matters used the Campaign 2020 Dashboard to rank the 2020 Democratic field by media coverage. One of their fellows…

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Four Tales Of 'Gas Prices' On TV News Through AI And Captioning Search

How have television news outlets covered the price of gasoline over the past decade? Traditionally, one would turn to the…

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The Strategy Bridge: Using Global Media Big Data to Understand China’s Soft Power Efforts

This analysis by The Strategy Bridge uses GDELT to explore China's soft power efforts as measured by media coverage. View…

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TheHox: Global Media Coverage

An interesting chart visualization of the 2020 candidates: See The Full Tweet.

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Mentions Of Toilet Paper Up Sharply But Below Sept. 2017's Hurricane Irma

As the timeline below shows, mentions of "toilet paper" have been up sharply since the start of this month and…

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CSIS: The Age Of Mass Protests: Understanding An Escalating Global Trend

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) has published a new report titled "The Age of Mass Protests: Understanding…

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Media Coverage And Coronavirus Panic: What The Numbers Show

As the coronavirus has spread globally, fearful shoppers have stripped stores bare and caused a worldwide shortage of protective face…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Missing CBS Weekend News Programs Added

When we originally released the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 we recommended limiting analyses to examining only Monday-Friday broadcasts due…

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News Coverage Of Aviation At Elevated Levels

Worldwide media coverage of aviation has increased sharply over the last two months as Coronavirus and other factors have confronted…

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Media Coverage Of Coronavirus Going Global

As the Coronavirus has spread, media outlets across the world have begun covering its local impact as citizens stock up…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: People Account For 70% Of Evening News Airtime

It turns out that unsurprisingly, human beings have been depicted in more than 70% of the total airtime of ABC,…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: All Videos Reprocessed Using V1 "Builtin/Latest" Model

The original release of the The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 on February 3, 2020 featured videos processed under two…