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Connecting The TV Explorer & Visual Explorer For Seamless CSPAN Search & Legislative Deep Linking

Earlier this week we unveiled a powerful new interface to CSPAN as part of our Visual Explorer Lenses initiative. When…

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Semantic Narrowing: Towards A Calculable Descriptive Statistic Associated With Press Freedom And Authoritarianism

This paper proposes a novel measure for operationalizing authoritarianism: the narrowing of semantic dispersion. This paper defines semantic dispersion as…

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Tomorrow: Connecting The TV Explorer & Visual Explorer

Stay tuned for a major new announcement about our work creating new interface metaphors connecting the TV Explorer and Visual…

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Language Models Can Improve Event Prediction By Few-Shot Abductive Reasoning

Large language models have shown astonishing performance on a wide range of reasoning tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether…

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CJR: How The Media Is Covering ChatGPT

The Two Center has an article in today's Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) exploring how the media has covered ChatGPT and…

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Tracking a Year of Tucker Carlson on Russian TV

Until his departure from Fox News last month, Tucker Carlson was a regular fixture on Russian television news, with clips…

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Today: Google IO Connect In Miami

Kalev will be at Google's I/O Connect event in Miami today – reach out if you're in town!

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FiveThirtyEight: The Rise, Fall And Potential Resurrection Of Ron DeSantis

FiveThirtyEight explores DeSantis' campaign trajectory, including an analysis of media coverage. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: New Broadcast Time Offset Referencing

Last week we introduced a new parameter to the Visual Explorer that allows referencing a specific thumbnail frame in a…

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Visual Explorer: Heads Of State Embedding Database For Searching Russian Television News

Last week we demonstrated searching an entire year of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television news for appearances of current and…

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Hyperlinking Television: Connecting Our Nation's Legislation To The Legislative Process Via Deep Linking CSPAN

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive and the Media-Data Research Consortium, we are tremendously excited today to…

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Visual Explorer: Scripting Using The New Channel Inventory JSON File

Yesterday we announced the new Visual Explorer Channel Inventory JSON file for programmatic discovery. As a simple example of how…

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Visual Explorer: New Channel Inventory JSON File For Programmatic Discovery

To make it easier to programmatically interact with the Visual Explorer and its new Visual Explorer Lenses metaphor, we have…

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GCP Blog: Bringing The Power Of Large Models To Google Cloud's Speech API

We are incredibly excited to be cited in the Google Cloud Blog announcement today of Cloud Speech's USM Chirp! Read…

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WashPost: Ted Cruz Figures Out A Way To Guzzle New Bud Light Headlines

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes an analysis of television news coverage of Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney. Read The…

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Visual Explorer: New Direct ImageID Referencing

When working with the Visual Explorer's every-4-seconds image snapshots for each broadcast, the images are numbered sequentially, each representing 4…

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Visual Explorer: Introducing Visual Explorer Lenses

Today we are excited to unveil Visual Explorer Lenses: a powerful new metaphor for engaging with and understanding video that…

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Tracking Putin, Trump, Biden And Zelenskyy Across A Year Of Russian Television News Totaling A Quarter-Billion Seconds Of Airtime

This week we demonstrated tracking all appearances of Tucker Carlson across the 7 Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian channels over the…

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Russian TV Face Scanning Powerful Enough To Match Even Cartoon Renderings

The open source face_recognition Python library behind our massive new facial database of Russian television news is powerful enough to…

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TV News Coverage Of Immigration Falling Sharply Since Last Week

TV news coverage of immigration reached a fever pitch at the end of last week with the expiration of Title…

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Inflation Continues To Fade On TV News But Remains Elevated On Business Channels

Mentions of inflation across television news have continued to fade since their July-August 2022 peaks, with general news channels showing…

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WashPost: Tim Scott Is In A Better Position Than You Might Think

The Washington Post's David Byler includes an analysis of television news mentions of Tim Scott. Read The Full Article.

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Homelessness Mentions Rise On TV News With Fox News Mentioning More Than CNN & MSNBC Combined

Mentions of homelessness first began to rise on Fox News in in 2018, surging in 2019 and has begun a…

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WashPost: Donald Trump Is Endlessly Willing To Endorse Extrajudicial Violence

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes a link to the TV Explorer showing how often Trump has mentioned Jordan Neely….