Using AI To Generate A Visual Shot Summary Of An Evening News Broadcast
Last month Google's Laurent Picard published this fascinating demo using Google's Video AI API to detect all of the camera…
The Visual Anatomy Of An Evening News Broadcast
What does an evening news broadcast look like as seen through the eyes of Google's Cloud Video API? Using the…
Juneteenth Finally Gets Television News Attention After A Decade Of Silence
Despite its significance, Juneteenth has received almost no coverage over the past decade, with just 37 mentions on CNN, 26…
Google DevRel Talk Tomorrow On How GDELT Uses GCP
Tune in tomorrow to hear the myriad ways in which GDELT relies upon Google's Cloud Platform (GCP) to create one…
Television News Coverage Of Seattle’s CHOP/CHAZ Zone Drops To Zero After Violence
Seattle’s CHOP/CHAZ zone captured the media’s imagination after it was created as a police-free zone. Fox News has covered the…
Collision From Home: A Web Summit Event
Kalev will be speaking this week at Collision From Home, the North American conference run by Web Summit! For those…
Search Interest In "Hate Speech" Rises In Trump Era
Google web searches in the US for the topic of “hate speech” have more than nearly doubled since the election…
Little Change In Search Interest In Free Speech
Google web searches for the topic of “free speech” from the start of Google Trends data in 2004 through late…
“Censorship” Search Interest Steady In US But Rises Globally
Google web searches for the topic of “censorship” have been remarkably stable since mid-2012 in the US (top timeline), but…
Mentions Of Free Speech Are Steady On Television News
Unlike censorship, mentions of free speech have not noticeably changed over the past decade on television news. While Fox News has…
Fox News Steadily Ramps Up Censorship Coverage During Trump Presidency
Mentions of censorship on CNN and MSNBC have remained largely unchanged over the past decade, but since the election of…
Mentions Of Censorship Rising In Online News
Mentions of censorship have been relatively stable over the past three and a half years in online news, falling sharply…
Mentions Of “Deplatforming” On The Rise
The term “deplatforming” first lept to prominence when a gun control organization founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords tried to shut…
Covid Coverage Displaces Floyd/Racism; Trump's Star Dims Too
As the spectacle of mass crowds, militarized police and tear gas have faded in the wake of George Floyd’s burial, so too…
Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset: KRON, LINKTV and SFTV Added!
We're tremendously excited to announce today the addition of KRON (MyNetwork), LINKTV (Link TV) and SFGTV (San Francisco Government TV)…
Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset: Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business and CPAN, CSPAN2 and CSPAN3 Channels Added!
We're tremendously excited to announce today the addition of Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, CSPAN, CSPAN2 and CSPAN3 to the Television News…
WashPost: Trump Would Rather Embrace An Alleged Murderer Than Have Ivanka Face Scrutiny
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the correlation between the media's attention and Trump's tweets. Read The Full Article.
GDELT + 24 Hours Of Google Cloud Talks by DevRel
We're tremendously excited to announce that Kalev will be speaking at Google Cloud's DevRel event on June 23rd about how…
A 3.5 Year 634-Million Article Historical Backfile For The Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary
We announced yesterday that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary was now a part of GCAM and being applied to all…
Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary (eMFD) Added To GCAM!
We're excited to announce today that the Extended Moral Foundation Dictionary (eMFD) is now available in GCAM as of today!…
Medium: Why Have Americans And The News Media Lost Interest In The Coronavirus Pandemic?
This fascinating Medium post explores media coverage and Google Trends search interest in the Covid-19 pandemic with some interesting conclusions….
Exponential Family Tensor Completion With Auxiliary Information
This paper by two researchers at Fudan University explores tensor completion: Tensor completion is among the most important tasks in…
University de Montemorelos: Application of Data Science to Discover Violence-Related Issues in Iraq
This paper explores various classification algorithms applied to understanding violent social issues in Iraq. Data science has been satisfactorily used…
Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset: Quadgrams & 5-Grams Now Available!
Last week we unveiled the new Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset of word frequency ngrams in unigram, bigram and trigram…