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Chyron Correlation: Comparing Television News Chyrons Over The Past Three Years

Since August 2017, the Internet Archive's Television News Archive has extracted the chyrons of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC…

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Using The Inference API + Cloud Video To Uncover The Visual Correlations Of A Decade Of Television News

Rather than having the Cloud Inference API surface the most significant visual labels of each day from television news of…

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A By-Station Visual Chronology Of The Top Visual Themes Of Television Evening News 2010-2019 Using Cloud Video + Inference API

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts on…

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A By-Station Visual Chronology Of The Top Visual Themes Of Television Evening News 2010-2019 Using Cloud Video + BigQuery

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts on…

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Visualizing The Visual Entity Graph Of A Decade Of Television News

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts…

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Visualizing The Most Important Relationships of 2009-2019 Through The Eyes of TV News

Having had Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a decade of television news from the Internet Archive's Television…

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Tracing Merriam-Webster's Words Of The Year 2010-2019 In Television News

Looking back at the words choosen as the word of the year by Merriam-Webster each year over the past decade,…

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A Television News Chronology Of The Most Important Topics & Things 2009-2019 Using Cloud Inference & Natural Language APIs

Last week we unveiled the results of having Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a decade of television news…

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New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?

The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the candidates. Read…

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A By-Station Topical Chronology Of A Decade Of Television News Using Cloud Natural Language & BigQuery

Earlier today we showed how the Cloud Natural Language API could read through a decade of television news transcripts to…

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A Topical Chronology Of A Decade Of Television News Using Cloud Natural Language & BigQuery

Last week we unveiled the results of having Google's Cloud Natural Language API non-consumptively read through the transcripts of a…

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WashPost: Trump Takes Solace In Fox News Even As Impeachment Looms

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at a number of statistics relating to media coverage and trust in the media….

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A Master Spreadsheet Of The Visual Entities Of A Decade Of Evening Television News Broadcasts

When Google's Cloud Video API watches a decade of evening television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: The Military Is Depicted Less Today Than A Decade Ago

Using Google's Cloud Video API to watch a decade of television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Machines Watching Television News: We're Seeing Police More And More In The News

Using Google's Cloud Video API to watch a decade of television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC using the…

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Tracing Coverage Of The "March For Our Lives" Movement

Climate change activism has dominated headlines this year, garnering magazine covers and award nominations. What became of last year's "March…

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Machines Watching Television News: Cataloging Protest Coverage On The Evening News 2010-2019

Earlier this week we released a massive new dataset in which Google's Cloud Video API watched a decade of evening…

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What a Decade of Data Says About the TV News Landscape

Americans of all political stripes increasingly perceive a fractured Fourth Estate in which news outlets report on parallel universes, covering…

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Charting Television's Evening News Coverage Using The Closed Captioning Entity Graph

Using deep learning algorithms to read through a decade of closed captioning transcripts and compile a list of all of…

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Is There Merit To White House Claims That Impeachment Has Overshadowed USMCA & China?

President Trump scored two major legislative victories this week in tentative agreements for USMCA (the successor to NAFTA) and a…

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How Impeachment So Dominates The News Even A Volcanic Eruption Earns Barely A Mention

Ordinarily one might expect a volcanic eruption that left at least 16 dead and at least 29 injured would have…

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Tracking The Similarity Of Word Usage On Television News Coverage 2009-2019

What would it look like to use the closed captioning of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News to compare every word…

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Comparing Word Usage Across Television News Stations

Are there words that appear more often on one television news station than another? To explore this question in more…

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Tracking The Similarity Of Television News Coverage Over Time

Earlier today we used the Television News Entity Graph, which tracks the primary things and topics discussed on television news…