Hong Kong Remains Off Media Radar
Mentions of Hong Kong on television news began June 9, 2019 and ended November 29, 2019, with BBC covering them…
Rod Arquette Show Radio Interview On Tara Reade Coverage
Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis of Tara Reade coverage. Listen.
Building An Open Resources Repository For COVID-19 Research
This collaborative effort by researchers at a number of universities endeavors to create a centralized database of Covid-19-related datasets: The…
Biden vs. Kavanaugh: How the #MeToo Numbers Stack Up
Three years ago, the #MeToo movement was everywhere, with powerful men facing public reckonings seemingly on a weekly basis. Two…
New Twitter Censorship Rules Raise Transparency Questions
After years of being on the defensive over data breaches, privacy invasion, censorship and monopoly concerns, social media platforms are…
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….
ChainNews: Who Is Using The Term "Chinese Virus"? This Is A Thought-Provoking Research Result
This Chinese-language article looks at how Covid-19 has been framed in the media, especially the use of terms like "Chinese…
RealClearHealth: Data Is Key To Containing COVID-19 And Preventing Next Pandemic
An exploration of data and Covid-19. Read The Full Article.
The Tennessee Star: Commentary: Big Tech, Privacy, and Power
The Tennessee Star published Rachel Bovard's commentary about the shift towards ever-greater censorship of social platforms. Read The Full Article.
60 Minutes: The Computer Algorithm That Was Among The First To Detect The Coronavirus Outbreak
CBS' "60 Minutes" profiles how BlueDot sent one of the first very alerts of Covid-19. BlueDot uses its own machine…
Global Multilingual Covid-19 Online News Narrative Dataset Now Updating
Our global multilingual Covid-19 online news narratives dataset that includes the URLs and titles of worldwide news coverage about the…
Did Rising News Media Unemployment Spur Increased Coverage In "Opening Up" The Economy?
The journalism world in the US has been hit hard by the economic damage from shutting down the economy to…
Media Coverage Driving Search Interest In Pulse Oximeters
Media coverage has been behind many of the panic buying behaviors of the Covid-19 crisis, from toilet paper to N95…
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…
American Greatness: Big Tech, Privacy, and Power
An article in American Greatness by Rachel Bovard cites Kalev's RCP analysis of Facebook's policy on protest discussion on its…
Did The World Overlook The Media's Early Warning Of COVID-19?
This analysis by researchers at the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong examines the earliest…
"Coronavirus" More Popular Than "Covid-19" But Fox Mentions Covid More Than Its Peers
Which is the more popular term, Covid-19 or Coronavirus? While CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all use "Coronavirus" significantly more…
Expanded Returned Clips Count For TV & TVAI APIs
You can now select up to 5,000 results from the TV and TVAI APIs, including their Television Explorer and Television…
Journal Of Risk Research: Did The World Overlook The Media's Early Warning Of Covid-19?
An article published today in the Journal of Risk Research looks at early warning signals of Covid-19 in GDELT. Read…
How COVID-19 Has Transformed What We Hear and See on TV
How is television news changing in the COVID-19 era as news channels run wall-to-wall pandemic coverage, newsreaders, reporters and guests…
Using BigQuery To Compile A Decade-Long Chronology Of Dr.'s On Television News
Yesterday we showed how a single SQL query in BigQuery could be used to compile a list of all of…
Using BigQuery + Regex's On OCR'd Chyrons From The Cloud Video API To Compile A List Of "Dr."'s On TV News
Between an hour and a third of the airtime on CNN each day since Feb. 26th has mentioned "Dr." somewhere…
Using BigQuery UDFs To Perform On-The-Fly NLP On OCR'd Chyrons From The Cloud Video API
Last year Felipe Hoffa demonstrated the use of the "compromise" JavaScript NLP library as a BigQuery UDF, applying it to…
Mentions Of Covid-19 "Working Groups" Steadily Increase
Since January 19th, mentions of "working groups" relating to Covid-19 have steadily increased, with some states relying on such working…