Selective Rules Enforcement Stirs Facebook Transparency Debate
Last week two major stories broke about the ways in which Facebook silently bends or waives its rules to accommodate…
Compiling A List Of Social Media Handles On Television News
What are the most common social media handles that have appeared on television news this year? Using a simple regular…
Multilingual Television News OCR: Chinese On BBC
Google's Cloud Video API is able to transcribe an incredibly rich list of languages in the onscreen text of television…
KTRH: Virtual Campaigns Forced to Navigate Social Media Censorship
Kalev appeared on KTRH radio in Houston, Texas to talk about social media censorship. Read The Full Article.
Comparing COVID-19 Mentions In Captioning Versus OCR
How does the signal provided by OCR compare with that of spoken word captioning when it comes to COVID-19 mentions?…
PLOS Computational Biology: Real-Time Estimation Of Disease Activity In Emerging Outbreaks Using Internet Search Information
This fascinating analysis uses the GKG as a signal for realtime alerting of emerging disease outbreaks. Understanding the behavior of…
Contextualizing Television Imagery With Reverse Web Image Search, Caption Analysis And EXIF Metadata
Google's Cloud Vision API offers reverse image search, allowing you to specify a still image and it will locate other…
Analytics India: How Google's Cloud Vision APIs Analyse A Decade Of Television News And Half A Billion Images
Analytics India covered Kalev's Computer Vision DevFest 2020 talk. Read The Full Article.
Cataloging "Defund The Police" Signs On Television News
The phrase "defund the police" leapt into the 2020 media lexicon in June with the George Floyd protests. Using the…
BBC News January – April 2020 VGEG Backfile Now Processed
Collaborating with the Media-Data Research Consortium under its Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative…
"Defund The Police" On Television News
The timeline below shows the sudden rise and fall of the phrase "defund the police" on television news since the…
Tracking White House Adviser Scott Atlas On Television News
Last week Dr. Scott Atlas joined the White House as a medical adviser on its COVID-19 efforts. The timeline below…
Lebanon All But Disappears From Television News
The Beirut explosion has all but disappeared from US television news. Read The Full Article.
Volatility Index Not Surging During Pandemic
The timeline below shows mentions of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX) since Jan. 1, 2014, showing…
Tracking Trump's Tweets On Television News
Using the TV AI Explorer, it is possible to search the OCR'd onscreen text of BBC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox…
MSNBC & FOX NEWS January – April 2020 VGEG Backfile Now Processed
Collaborating with the Media-Data Research Consortium under its Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative…
JBEM: Predictors of International News Flow: Exploring a Networked Global Media System
This article by Lei Guo and Chris Vargo in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media explores global news flows…
Google Cloud Blog: COVID-19 Public Datasets: Supporting Organizations In Their Pandemic Response
The Google Cloud Blog featured an excerpt about GDELT's work on creating public datasets to understand the global COVID-19 narrative….
CNN January 2020 VGEG Backfile Now Processed
Collaborating with the Media-Data Research Consortium under its Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative…
Computer Vision DevCon 2020: What Google’s Cloud Vision APIs See In A Decade Of Television News And Half A Billion Images
The open data GDELT Project has analyzed more than half a billion news images and a decade of television news…
The Geography Of COVID-19 Twitter
Twitter has grown significantly more popular since mid-March of this year as quarantined populations across the world turned to social…
Comparing COVID-19 Through Mediums: Twitter, Online News And Google Trends
How did the rise of COVID-19 coverage look like through Twitter, online news and Google Trends? The timeline below shows…
Visualizing Twitter's Evolution 2012-2020 And How Tweeting Is Changing In The COVID-19 Era
Last March we published an in-depth exploration of Twitter's evolution 2012-2018 and followed it up this past November with a…
TV Explorer Now Supports Heatmaps
We've added the TV 2.0 API's heatmap capability to the TV Explorer! View The TV Explorer.