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How Often Are Books And Bookshelves Seen On Television News?

How often are books and bookshelves seen on television news? The timeline below used AI to scan every second of news programming…

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How Much Attention Did The Earthquake In Haiti Receive On Television News?

How much attention has the earthquake in Haiti received on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the country across…

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Public Sentiment In Times Of Terror

This SoDa LABS working paper from the Monash Business School examines public sentiment surrounding terrorism: Do citizens hold their government…

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EWA2021: Web Archives As Societal-Scale HASS Research Platforms: Linguistics, Narrative Mapping And Realtime Trend Analysis

Kalev is speaking today at the EWA 2021 conference, exploring three GDELT use cases for HASS research: linguistics, narrative mapping…

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Despite Delta's Rise CNN Hasn't Brought Back Its Covid-19 Dashboard

Since March 20, 2020, CNN has displayed a live Covid-19 dashboard in the upper-right of its daily news programming tracking…

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WashPost: When You Prioritize Anti-Expert Politics, You Get Reality-Denying Leaders

The Washington Post's Philip Bump references television news coverage of Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci. Read The Full Article.

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Television News Turned Its Attention Back To Afghanistan But Web Searches Peaked Two Weeks Ago

How have the past two weeks of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan been covered? The timeline below shows how quickly mentions across…

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Wikidata, Aging Knowledge Graphs And Expired & Conflicting Attributes

As we noted this past June, knowledge graphs constructed over the real world age rapidly and require constant updating to…

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Global Numeric Graph Reaches 4.28 Billion Numeric Clauses

The Global Numeric Graph (GNG) has reached just over 4.28 billion numeric clauses across 152 languages back to January 1,…

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How Often Is Television News Likening The Afghanistan Withdrawal To Saigon?

How often has television news likened the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to the 1975 fall of Saigon? The timeline below shows total mentions of Saigon…

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Inventorying The Visual Iconography Of Television News: Using AI To Count How Much Airtime Features Books

How often do books feature on television news? The timeline below shows the total daily seconds of airtime in which…

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How Are The Taliban Being Covered On Television News?

How are the Taliban being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of them across BBC News London, CNN,…

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Learning At Web-Scale: Errors & Edge Cases In Realtime News Coverage

One of the challenges in having algorithms learn about the world through the web is that even when they are…

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How Are Women's Rights In Afghanistan Being Covered On Television News?

With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, how are women's rights in the country being covered? The timeline below shows the number of…

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Global Similarity Graph: 440 Million 512-Dimension Embeddings Now Available Covering Online & Television News

On top of the 190 million sentence-level embeddings in the Global Similarity Graph Television News Sentence Embeddings dataset spanning 7…

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Afghanistan Is Already Fading On Television News

How much attention is the collapse of Afghanistan receiving on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the country, the…

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More Experiments Using Video AI To Scan Television News For Specific Books

Following last week's example of using video OCR to search television news for Roger McNamee's "Zucked" book, here are a…

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A Quarter-Billion Global Similarity Graph Document Embeddings Now Available Back to 2020

We are excited today to announce that the Global Similarity Graph (GSG) Document Embeddings dataset has been extended back to…

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Which Administration Officials Are Telling The Afghanistan Withdrawal Story?

On Friday, Politico highlighted some of the Biden administration officials appearing on television news to tell the story of the US withdrawal…

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Experiments With Machine Translation: Neural Machine Translation, Fidelity, Entity Recognition And Grammatical Fluency

Neural machine translation (NMT) has emerged as the dominate approach to machine translation today, replacing statistical (SMT) approaches, which in…

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Global Relationship Graph Reaches 2.4 Billion Relationships

We're excited to announce that the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot has reached 2.4 billion codified relationships from global…

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How Often Are Trillions Of Dollars Mentioned On Television News?

How often does television news talk about "trillions of dollars?" The timeline below shows the total percentage of monthly airtime mentioning "trillion"…

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How Has Economic Uncertainty Been Covered On Television News?

One measure of economic uncertainty is to measure the density of news mentions of "economic" or "economy" near "uncertain" or…

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Using Video AI To Scan Television News For Bookshelves With Roger McNamee's "Zucked" Book

The TV AI Explorer uses the Cloud Video AI API to perform OCR text recovery over television news programming on…