Campaign 2020 Struggling To Regain Television News Attention
Just six months ago, the 2020 presidential race was set to be the story of the year. Instead, four months…
With TikTok Rally Sabotage, Election Interference Morphs Again
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s campaign rally in a half-empty Tulsa arena, Democrats openly cheered the revelation that activists…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back After Floyd Protests
CNN's live Covid-19 dashboard has run for nearly 9 hours a day since March 20th, but abruptly disappeared during the…
Building Your Own Home Video Recording & Production Studio: Behind The Scenes Of Our New GDELT Tutorials!
With the third video in our new GDELT Tutorial series launching this past weekend, we now have tutorials for Television…
Starting Points For Using GDELT To Understand Environmental & Wildlife Issues From Climate Change To Poaching
GDELT has long been used to understand environmental issues, from early work around climatic change to our well-known 2015 map…
Carto Blog: Google BigQuery Visualization: Mapping Big Spatial Data
Carto republished our new BigQuery+Carto tutorial and video on their blog! Read The Full Post.
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Comes Roaring Back
Despite briefly dropping its Covid-19 dashboard during the George Floyd protests, CNN has rapidly brought it back, bringing it just…
GDELT Tutorial: Using Carto's BigQuery Connector To Seamlessly Map Covid-19 News
The third in our GDELT Tutorial series, this video walks through our blog post from earlier this week, Using Carto's…
Using Television News Ngrams To Analyze Station-Specific Language
The trio of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News offer a fascinating microcosm of the language differences that define society at…
Using Carto's BigQuery Connector To Seamlessly Map The Global Geographic Graph
The Global Geographic Graph now spans more than 1.7 billion location mentions in worldwide English language news coverage back to…
Facebook Boycott Reveals Triad Shaping the Public Square
On Tuesday, as the number of advertisers boycotting Facebook surpassed more than 400 brands, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally…
Measuring Shot-Level Visual Similarity Of TV News Using The Video AI API & BigQuery
As we continue in our efforts to automatically segment television news broadcasts into their component stories, we've looked at shot-level…
WBBM: Study Finds More Political Sources Publish COVID-19 News Than Scientific Sources
A Notre Dame study explores the political polarization of Covid-19 coverage. Read The Full Article.
Advanced OCR Similarity Metrics Using BigQuery + Video AI To Segment Television Evening News
Yesterday we showed how a single SQL query in BigQuery can be used to segment a television news show by…
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Using BigQuery To Segment A Television Evening News Show Using Shot Changes + OCR Similarity
As we continue to look at new ways to segment television shows into their component stories, its worth noting the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…