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Updated Dr.'s Chronology From Television News OCR

We've updated our chronology of Dr.'s from the onscreen OCR'd text of television news that we first released last week….

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Global Geographic Graph Now Updating Daily

The Global Geographic Graph is now updating each morning 3-4AM UTC, allowing you to create continually updated geographic analyses. The…

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How Trend Detection Can Flag Bursty Advertising Campaigns

One of the metrics we track in the Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) 2.0 using Google's Cloud Video API to analyze…

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Greater Variety Of Objects And Activities Depicted On CNN In Covid-19 Era

One of the metrics we track in the Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) 2.0 using Google's Cloud Video API to analyze…

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Little Change In Total Daily Words Spoken On CNN During Covid-19

One of the metrics we track in the Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) 2.0 using Google's Cloud Video API to analyze…

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Fewer Speaker Changes On CNN During Covid-19

One of the metrics we track in the Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) 2.0 using Google's Cloud Video API to analyze…

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Shot Changes Stabilize On CNN In Covid-19 Era

One of the metrics we track in the Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) 2.0 using Google's Cloud Video API to…

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Daily Onscreen Text Increasing In Covid-19 Era

Since January 25th, we've used Google's Cloud Video API to nonconsumptively analyze CNN's daily airtime in collaboration with the Internet…

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Tracing "I/Me" Versus "Us/We" Pronoun Use On Television News

Has the election of Donald Trump or the Covid-19 pandemic changed the very pronouns that television news uses? Last year…

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Changes In How Television Networks Use The Word "The"

A BBC News article earlier this year noted the power of the word "the" in the English language. This got…

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Anxiety-Related Language In Global Online News Continues At High Levels

Two weeks ago we showed that anxiety-related language in global English online news coverage had soared since early February and…

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Mapping The Geography Of Angela Merkel Through The Global Geographic Graph

In 2018 we explored the idea of mapping the geography of language by showing the locations most closely associated with…

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Announcing The Global Geographic Graph

We are tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the GDELT Global Geographic Graph, the underlying dataset powering the…

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Announcing A Massive New Geographic News Database Of The Locations Mentioned In Covid-19 News Coverage

Last month we created a map of the top locations on earth most commonly mentioned in worldwide online news coverage…

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Anxiety-Related Language Soars In Global Online News Since Late February

This past October we showcased using the Web News Ngrams dataset to measure global anxiety using a single BigQuery query…

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Visualizing The Entity Graph Around 'Shortages' And Covid-19

Following the incredible graph BBVA created of co-occurring organization names in Covid-19 coverage, we've constructed the graph below of co-occurring…

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Visualizing Entity Co-Occurrences In Covid-19 Coverage Using The Natural Language API

What might the Global Entity Graph tell us about the co-occurrence network of entities mentioned in coverage of Covid-19, as…

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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…