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…
Google Cloud DevRel Talk Live!
Kalev's Google Cloud DevRel event talk is now live!
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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!