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International Journal of Forecasting: Testing Big Data In A Big Crisis: Nowcasting Under COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, economists have struggled to obtain reliable economic predictions, with standard models becoming outdated and their forecasting…
Institutional Consequences Of The Black Lives Matter Movement: Towards Diversity In Elite Education
This article in Political Studies Review by Mathis Ebbinghaus (Nuffield College and Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)…
BBVA: Measuring Consumer Inflation Expectations Using Data From The Media
This new analysis by BBVA examines consumer inflation expectations in part through GDELT. Read The Full Article.
Social Media Companies Continue To Profit From Self-Harm Content
The web’s earliest days were marked by optimism that the digital world would be an unfettered force for good. It…
Here’s What We Know About The Audience For Election Predictions
Northwestern University Professor of Communication Nick Diakopoulos examines the audiences that consume election predictions in the US. Read The Full…
WashPost: A Specter Rises From The Rhetoric Of The 1970s: Scary NYC Subways
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of crime on the New York City subway system. Read The Full…
Visual Explorer: New Next/Previous 30 Second Navigation Feature
To make it easier to navigate through a broadcast in the Visual Explorer, we've added next/previous buttons under the video…
From Outrage To Opportunity: How To Include The Missing Perspectives Of Women Of All Colors In News Leadership And Coverage
This powerful report by Luba Kassova and AKAS explores gender representation in media. You can also listen to an Apple…
Visual Explorer: Over 1.4 Million Minutes Of Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Television News Transcriptions Now Available!
The Visual Explorer launched in June of this year in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to make…
Visual Explorer: Channel Filtering To Only Display Selected Channels
With the Visual Explorer now encompassing more than 100 channels from 50 countries and territories, sometimes you may wish to…
Visual Explorer: CSPAN, CSPAN2 & CSPAN3 Now Available
We are excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, we've added CSPAN, CSPAN2 and…
Search To Pass Messages For Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
Completing missing facts is a fundamental task for temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs). Recently, graph neural network (GNN) based methods, which…
Comparing Human Vs Machine Transcription And Translation Of A Russian Television News Broadcast
Yesterday the Russian Media Monitor tweeted out a clip from a Russian television news broadcast with human-translated English language subtitles….
Scanning Television News At Scale To Find An Excerpted Clip
Earlier today, a clip was posted to Twitter that excerpted a Russian television news broadcast, but the tweet did not…
Experiments With Whisper ASR: No Speedup On V100 GPU From #370
As we continue our ASR experiments with OpenAI's Whisper ASR, we've examined a recent patch that restores proper attention caching…
Automated Transcript & Translation Of Yesterday's 2PM MSK NTV Broadcast
How might automated transcription and translation help make Russian television news more accessible to scholars and journalists? Take yesterday's 2PM…
States Vs. Social Movements: Protests And State Repression In Asia
This study considers how governments use state‐sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so…
PressTV: The Iranian Government's Framing Of The Shiraz Terror Attack
With the addition of Iran's PressTV to the Internet Archive's Television News Archive and the Visual Explorer this week, we…
Iran's PressTV Added To Visual Explorer To Help Scholars And Journalists Examine Government Narratives On Protests
Earlier this year we launched the Visual Explorer in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to help scholars…
Applying GCP's Speech-to-Text ASR To 101 Sample TV News Broadcasts Spanning 50 Countries
How does state-of-the-art speech transcription (ASR) like Google's Speech-to-Text API (STT) work across the rich diversity of languages, dialects and…
WashPost: What's The Non-Obvious Reason Fox News Is Talking About Crime More?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines television news coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.
Applying OpenAI's Whisper ASR To 101 Sample TV News Broadcasts Spanning 50 Countries
OpenAI's open source Whisper ASR has received immense interest for its multilingual transcription and translation capabilities spanning nearly 100 languages….
Colab IPython Interactive Demo Notebook: Natural Language Visual Search Of Television News Using OpenAI's CLIP
Yesterday we explored how to use OpenAI's CLIP to perform natural language visual search of television news. For that exploration…
Natural Language Visual Search Of Television News Using OpenAI's CLIP
What might it look like to visually search television news using not a pre-defined list of categories, but arbitrary natural…