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Stanford's HAI Artificial Intelligence Index 2019 Annual Report
Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) released its 2019 annual report today on the state of AI that includes…
WashPost: Trump's Strongest Supporters Agree With A Key Argument Of His: The Media Can't Be Trusted
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the parallel worlds of political coverage on the major television networks. Read The Full…
Misspellings In The News: Buffett & Volcker
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal noted how certain names are frequently misspelled in the news media, including Warren…
Vancouver Sun: Douglas Todd: Has Twitter Become 'Demonic'?
An article in today's Vancouver Sun quotes from one of Kalev's assessments of the state of social media today. Read…
Facebook Causes Protests
This fascinating paper by researchers at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and MIT's Department of Economics explores the relationship between…
WashPost: Horowitz's Report Breaks Sean Hannity's Mantra
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple explores television news coverage of Horowtiz. Read The Full Article.
Lessons Learned From Machines ‘Watching The News’ Through Television News Transcripts
What would it look like to let machines “watch” a decade of television news by reading their closed captioning transcripts?…
A Deep Learning-Powered Entity Graph Over Television News 2009-2019
UPDATE (2/14/2020): This has been succeeded by the Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0. This past July we…
Visualizing The Most Important People Of A Specific Day: December 6, 2019
Rather than examine the most important people of 2019 as a whole or those dominating the discourse around free trade…
Visualizing The Top People & Connections Relating To Free Trade In 2019
Free trade was a central economic topic this year, but who were the people and the connections between them that…
Visualizing The Top People & Connections Of 2019
Who were the most important people of 2019 through the eyes of the world's news media and what were the…
Trump Dominates TV Landscape; Impeachment Casts Vast Shadow
As House Democrats rush to impeach President Trump this month, it is worth reflecting on just how large he has…
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 candidates. Read…
A Chronology Of The Most Important People & Places 2016-2019 Using Google’s Cloud Inference API & Cloud Natural Language API
Yesterday we showed how Google’s Cloud Inference API could be used to create a “trending topics” service by using Google’s…
Predicting Saudi Stock Market Index By Incorporating GDELT Using Multivariate Time Series Modelling
This fascinating paper by Rawan Alamro, Andrew McCarren and Amal Al-Rasheed, explores a number of statistical and machine learning approaches…
BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Protest November
BBVA's latest monthly look at the state of the world. Read The Full Article.
Using Google's Cloud Inference API & Cloud Natural Language API To Create A 'Trending Topics' Timeline
Google’s Cloud Inference API offers an incredibly powerful lens through which to explore the innate hidden patterns of vast archives…
IJR: The Andrew Yang Media Blackout Might Be Real
IJR cites Axios' analysis using the TV Explore that found Bloomberg has gotten vastly more mentions than Yang despite just…
Announcing The Television News Research Chyrons / 'Lower Third' Dataset
Since August 2017, the Internet Archive's Television News Archive has compiled a daily chyron ("lower third") dataset called "Third Eye,"…
This Has Been The Year Of 'Flight Shame'
The phrase "flight shame" has been appearing more and more frequently in worldwide online news this year, having first started…
Axios: Michael Bloomberg Is Off To An Attention-Grabbing Start
Axios' latest look at the state of the 2020 field uses the TV Explorer to find that Bloomberg was mentioned…
'Fake Meat' Vs 'Impossible Meat': A Case Study In Branding
As plant-based proteins attract newfound attention, which term is gaining the most traction? Terms like "fake meat" or brand names…
Tracing The Trajectory Of 'Criminal Justice' In the News
The phrase "criminal justice" is finding increasing but divergent adoption in the press, often leading to cases like today's descriptions…
Mass Ingest Workflows With Google's Cloud Storage Streaming Transfers
Beneath all massive data-driven analyses lie vast archives of data that in many cases originate outside the cloud. Google's Cloud…