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Macroeconomic Forecasting Through News, Emotions And Narrative
This fascinating paper by Sonja Tilly, Markus Ebner and Giacomo Livan leverages sentiment analysis of GDELT for forecasting: This study…
Video: "Immunity Passports" Fade From The News
So-called "immunity passports" were once touted as the way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which once someone had been…
Video: Texas Freeze Gets Fraction Of Hurricane Harvey Coverage And Fox Mentions Less Than CNN Or MSNBC
The timeline below shows the total monthly mentions of Texas across television news over the past decade, showing that the massive storm…
Finding Good News In The Midst Of The Pandemic Using Tone Filtering
In the midst of a global pandemic it can seem that every other news headline is about something negative. How…
Video: Indian Glacier Flood Receives Little Airtime On American Television News
The graph below shows the percentage of airtime across a set of US and international television news stations that mentioned the Indian glacier…
Covid-19 Aerosolization Receives Little Television News Coverage
The chart below shows the total number of mentions of aerosolization across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of last…
Video: Cruz Cancun Trip Gets Far Less Coverage On Fox News Than CNN Or MSNBC
The timeline below shows the total mentions of Ted Cruz across television news surrounding his trip to Cancun. MSNBC mentioned him the…
Television News Is Talking About The Minimum Wage Again For The First Time Since 2014
The timeline below shows the total number of daily mentions of the minimum wage across television news over the past decade, showing…
Video: Fox News Mentions Jen Psaki More Than CNN And MSNBC Combined
The graph below shows how many times White House press secretary Jen Psaki has been mentioned across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…
Fox News Leads TJ Ducklo Coverage While MSNBC Doesn't Mention It At All
The timeline below shows the total daily mentions of former White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo on television news, showing that Fox News…
Cruz Cancun Trip Gets Far Less Coverage On Fox News Than CNN Or MSNBC
The timeline below shows the total mentions of Ted Cruz across television news surrounding his trip to Cancun. MSNBC mentioned him the…
Texas Freeze Receives Little National TV News Attention And Fox Mentions Far Less Than CNN Or MSNBC
The timeline below shows the total monthly mentions of Texas across television news over the past decade, showing that the massive storm…
"Defund The Police" All But Disappears From Television News
The timeline below shows mentions of the phrase "defund the police" across television news since its emergence at the end of May…
Video: American Television News Devotes Little Attention To Myanmar Coup
In the two weeks since Burma's February 1, 2021 military coup, how much attention has the coup received across television…
Bell Curves At Scale: URL Frontier Caches
Operating internet-scale globally distributed crawler fleets offers fascinating insights into how massive complex software can operate almost like a living…
Global Relationship Graph Reaches 1 Billion Relationships
We're excited to announce that the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, which debuted three months ago, has reached…
Video: Marjorie Taylor Greene Versus AOC On Television News
How has television news covered Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) since the start of this year? The graph below shows the…
Tracking The Similarity Of Television News Word Use Over The Past Decade
How similar are the words spoken across television news each day and has that similarity changed much over the past…
When Did Television News First Start Talking About "Disinformation"?
When did the term "disinformation" first enter the media lexicon? The timeline below shows the total number of mentions of it across…
Identifying Competing Narrative Framings Around Vaccine Efficacy Against Covid-19 Variants
One of the great challenges in autonomously identifying competing narratives in the news lies in the complexity of understanding that…
Video: Fox News Covers Psaki's "Personal Capacity" Walensky Comment Twice As Much As CNN And MSNBC Combined
On February 3, 2021, CDC Director Dr. Walensky stated at a press conference that schools could be safely reopened without…
Tracking The Similarity Of Word Usage On Television News Coverage 2009-2021
The timeline below tracks the similarity in word usage across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News by month (using a 3-month…
Announcing The Covid-19 Media Dashboard
We're tremendously excited to announce the first iteration of the new Covid-19 Media Dashboard! This inaugural dashboard is a very…
Visualizing The Global Covid-19 "Infodemic": Using Maps, Charts And Timelines To Visualize The Global Media Narrative
Through the Media-Data Research Consortium (M-DRC)'s Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative Through TV…