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Another Example Of Google's AI Workshop "Semantic Similarity For Natural Language" Experiment Segmenting Television News Into Stories

This past March we demonstrated how Google's AI Workshop "Semantic Similarity For Natural Language" experiment could be used to segment…

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Video: Collision From Home: A Web Summit Event

We're excited to announce that the video of Kalev and Exponential View's Azeem Azhar is now available to view, republished…

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Is Parler a Freer Alternative to Twitter? Well, for Now.

Twitter alternative Parler has garnered headlines in recent days as leading conservatives have flocked to the platform as a less-moderated…

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Another Example Of Using AI To Generate A Visual Shot Summary Of An Evening News Broadcast

Last week we showed how Laurent Picard's visual shot summary demo could be used to take the shot change catalog…

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Mentions Of A Covid-19 Vaccine Have Disappeared On Television News

Discussion of a vaccine peaked from mid-April to late May, but disappeared with the George Floyd protests and has yet…

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At Its Media Peak Ebola Got More Television News Coverage Than Covid-19 Did

It is notable that during the week of Oct. 12, 2014, Ebola received more coverage than Covid-19 has in any…

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We’ve Stopped Talking About Covid-19 As A Respiratory Illness

In late Feb. 2020 as Covid-19 swept across the US, it was described as a respiratory illness, peaking the week…

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Antivax Movement Gets Little Television News Coverage Over Past Decade

For all of the concern among policymakers and media personalities regarding the antivax movement, it has received few mentions on…

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Opioid Epidemic Gets Little Television News Attention Over Past Decade

In the 20 years leading up to 2018, more than 450,000 Americans died from opioids, with more than 67,000 dying in 2018 alone. Despite…

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Covid-19 Has Gotten Just Three Times Ebola’s Coverage On Television News

Despite sweeping the planet and having a devastating impact on the US, Covid-19 has received just three times the number…

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Notre Dame: Politically Extreme Sources Publish More News On Covid-19 Than Scientifically Grounded Outlets

This fascinating study from the University of Notre Dame explores media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read The Full Article.

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WRI: The Rise Of Big Data And Supporting Technologies In Keeping Watch On The World's Forest

Researchers with the World Resources Institute (WRI) reference GDELT's ability to catalog global wildlife crime. Read The Full Article.

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GDELT Tutorials: Interactive Sentiment Mining With BigQuery!

The second in our new GDELT Tutorial series, this 6-minute video walks through sentiment mining using BigQuery!

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Anxiety On The Rise Again On Television News

The timeline below uses Colin Martindale's Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID) "anxiety" measure to assess the intensity of anxiety on CNN…

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IEEE DSC: Longitudinal Analysis of Cyber-Related Articles

This interesting paper uses GDELT as an index to global cybersecurity news coverage: Cyber attacks have a massive impact on…

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GDELT Tutorials: Our First Tutorial Video On Getting Started With The Television Explorer!

We're tremendously excited to announce today the first in what will be a series of tutorial videos walking you through…

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Qatar Foundation: In His Own Words: Digitally Detecting COVID-19 Public Opinion In The Arab World

Professor Fouad Mrad, Frontier Technologies Manager at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia talks about sentiment…

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ETH Zurich: The Effect Of Fox News On Health Behavior During COVID-19

This fascinating study examines media coverage's connection to actual public reaction. to COVID-19 mitigation measures: In the early weeks of…

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Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset: 16.9 Billion Records

Just how large is Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset? In all, the dataset comprises 3.12 billion unigrams, 4.98 billion bigrams,…

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Antifa & Terrorism Associations In The Media

The John F. Kennedy Institute at FU Berlin's Curd Knupfer notes that Antifa and "terrorism" are closely associated in global…

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Running The 'Trump Is' Analysis At Scale Using The TV News Ngrams 2.0

This past November we unveiled a fascinating look at how Donald Trump has been framed in the media since he…

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Google Cloud DevRel Talk Available Soon

For those that missed Kalev's Google Cloud DevRel talk yesterday it should be available for viewing sometime in the next…

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Collision From Home: A Web Summit Event

Thank you to all of the Collision From Home attendees that tuned in today to hear Kalev and Azeem Azhar…

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Google Cloud DevRel Talk

Thanks to all of you who tuned in for Kalev's Google Cloud DevRel talk today! The video should be posted…