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Now Live Updating & Expanded: A New Dataset For Exploring The Coronavirus Narrative In Global Online News

Two weeks ago we released a compilation of  URLs and brief snippets of worldwide English language news coverage mentioning Covid-19….

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Now Live Updating & Expanded: A New Dataset For Exploring The Coronavirus Narrative On Television News

Last week we released a massive new dataset of television news mentions of Covid-19 across 16 stations from January 1,…

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Stream Processing In The Cloud At Google Scale

Google's BigQuery platform is capable of brute-forcing its way through datasets with phenomenal speed. Performing a simple LIKE scan of…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: People Account For 70% Of Evening News Airtime

It turns out that unsurprisingly, human beings have been depicted in more than 70% of the total airtime of ABC,…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: All Videos Reprocessed Using V1 "Builtin/Latest" Model

The original release of the The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 on February 3, 2020 featured videos processed under two…

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A Global Golden Retriever Detector For Television News

There are more than 11,000 unique objects and activities in the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0's more than 470 million…

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A Timeline Of 40 Years Of Ukrainian Protest Intensity

Using the new modernized example Standard SQL queries we posted earlier today, what can we learn about the monthly protest…

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Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking The Coronavirus Through Google's Natural Language API

What has the Coronavirus outbreak looked like through the eyes of television news and how well has Google's Natural Language…

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Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Master VGEG 2.0 Captioning Entity List

Last week we released the Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0, a compilation of more than 477 million entity annotations…

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A Master Dataset Of Google Earth Appearances On Evening Television News

Following up on our analysis from earlier today tracking television news appearances of Google Earth, we've released the underlying CSV…

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Tracing How Television News Uses Google Earth To Illustrate Global Events

Over the past decade Google Earth has been a mainstay of American television news, helping audiences understand the geographic context…

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Trump's Tweets Aren't Getting The Same Television News Attention They Did In 2017

President Trump has eschewed many of the traditional presidential communications norms to speak directly to the world through his @realDonaldTrump…

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What Google's Natural Language API Sees In A Decade Of Television News: The Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0

What might it be like to use deep learning algorithms to non-consumptively "read" the closed captioning transcripts of more than…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Assessing The Semantic Visual Similarity Of A Decade Of Television Evening News

To what degree does the view we see of the world around us vary based on the media outlets we…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Using Semantic Visual Correlation To Identify Mislabeled Television Shows

The new Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 covers more than 19 million seconds of airtime across four stations spanning ten…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking Protests On The Evening News 2009-2020

Last year we used the pilot version of the Visual Global Entity Graph to track depictions of protests on the evening…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking The Increasing Presence Of Police On The Evening News

Last year we used the pilot version of the Visual Global Entity Graph to track depictions of police on the…

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What Google's Cloud Video AI Sees Watching Decade Of Television News: The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0

UPDATE (8/7/2020): Thanks to a Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant to the Media-Data Research Consortium, this dataset has been vastly…

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Visualizing Part Of Speech Distribution In A Multilingual World

As of this past Friday, GDELT's Web Part Of Speech dataset now covers 11 languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English,…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Now Updating Every Minute

The Cloud Natural Language API-powered neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) is now updating every minute, 24/7/365. Due to GDELT's current 15…

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Web Part Of Speech Dataset Now Updating Every Minute

The Cloud Natural Language API-powered Web Part of Speech dataset is now updating every minute, 24/7/365. Due to GDELT's current 15…

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Announcing The WEB-PARTOFSPEECH Dataset: 101 Billion Words Part Of Speech Tagged And Dependency Tree Parsed Using Google's NLP API

Today we are immensely excited to announce a transformative new dataset for linguistic analysis: more than 101 billion tokens (words,…

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Announcing Per-Second Television News Research Chyrons Dataset

Last month we announced a new research-grade chyron / "lower third" dataset for BBC News, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Television News Spoken Word Neural Entity Graph (TV News GEG) Now Updating Daily

We're tremendously excited to announce that the television news spoken word neural entity graph announced last month has now been…