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Tracking Infections, Death & Vaccination Over The Covid-19 Pandemic Using NGrams & BigQuery

How can the Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset be used to extract and track trends in numeric quantities? For example,…

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The Data Show Twitter Is Far From Dying

As #RIPTwitter trends and the media is awash with coverage lamenting the site’s apparently imminent demise, a look at the…

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Cataloging Two Weeks Of Russia 1 Using Visual Explorer + YOLOv5 Object Detection

Yesterday we demonstrated applying the YOLOv5x pretrained COCO model to a single Russian television news broadcast. Today we are going…

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Nature Scientific Reports: Improving Urban Flood Resilience Via GDELT GKG Analyses In China's Sponge Cities

Urban floods are the most severe disaster in most Chinese cities due to rapid urbanisation and climate challenges. Recently, media…

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RT Versus Fox News On The Ottawa Trucker Convoy

This Mastodon thread by Caroline Orr Bueno traces the interplay between Fox News and Russia Today's coverage of the Ottawa…

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Visual Explorer + YOLOv5 To Catalog Objects In A Russian TV News Broadcast

YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a popular and widely-used open object detection toolkit that is both extremely fast and…

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Media Reporting On Terror Fuels School Dropout

An article in today's Kenyans.co.ke edition covers how media reporting of terror attacks on schools in Kenya is negatively impacting…

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Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset Reaches 300 Billion Entries

The Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset has reached 299.9 billion entries! See our tutorials roundup from this past January for glimpses at…

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BBVA: Iran Social Unrest Infographic

BBVA examines media coverage of the Iranian protests in this infographic. See The Full Infographic.

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Today: MEDIT Open Seminar At Tallinn University

Kalev is speaking today at Tallinn University on the power of television news data, visual analytics and AI along with…

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Economic Uncertainty Through Television News: November 2022

Economic uncertainty is a closely watched metric by economists. Scholars like Alexopoulos & Cohen and Baker, Bloom & Davis have constructed simple narrative indicators of…

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WashPost: Despite The Midterms And A Mass Shooting, Trans People Remain A Target

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media framing of transgender people. Read The Full Article.

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Journal Of Risk Finance: News-Based Sentiment: Can It Explain Market Performance Before And After The Russia–Ukraine Conflict?

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market response of the aerospace and defense industry and the airline…

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This Week: MEDIT Open Seminar At Tallinn University

Kalev will be speaking on Tuesday at Tallinn University on the power of television news data, visual analytics and AI…

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Mapping Global News Coverage Of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

Using GDELT Summary, we can easily search for worldwide news coverage across GDELT 2.0's 65 live-translated languages that mention LNG….

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Cataloging Global Opposition To Energy Pipeline Projects

Using GDELT Summary, we can easily search for worldwide news coverage across GDELT 2.0's 65 live-translated languages that mention pipelines…

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Fox News Continues To Cover Immigration Far More Than CNN Or MSNBC

Fox News has mentioned immigration more than its peers since shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration, with mentions dropping sharply from…

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COP27 Climate Change Summit Receives Little TV News Coverage

The COP27 climate change summit has received little coverage compared with the past two years of discussion of climate change….

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Trump Still Looms Large Over The TV News Landscape

On a given day this month, Donald Trump has still been mentioned 100-200 times on Fox News, 250-400 times on…

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TV News Coverage Of Trump's False Claims About Bush & Obama's Document Practices

With Donald Trump once again repeating false claims about Bush and Obama's document practices, how has television news covered his…

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Nuclear Weapons Imagery Continues On Russian TV News: Today's 60 Minutes

Despite Russia's lessened overt nuclear threats against the West, the country's television news channels continue to showcase nuclear weapons imagery,…

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WashPost: House Republicans Announce Plans To Produce Content For Fox News

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the intersection of Republican rhetoric and Fox News coverage. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: Automatic Transcriptions Now Live In Visual Explorer For Belarusian, Russian And Ukrainian TV News

We are tremendously excited to announce today that automated Russian and Ukrainian language transcripts for all broadcasts airing on Belarus24,…

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Visualizing A Decade Of Twitter's Evolution: Jan 2012 – Nov 2022 & Musk's Purchase

Each year we publish a "State of the Twitterverse" that looks back at how Twitter has evolved since the start…