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More Experiments In Algorithmic Thumbnail Generation For Television News: Evening News Broadcasts

Continuing our series on algorithmic thumbnail generation for television news, what about a few examples drawn from evening news broadcasts,…

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Using Algorithmic Thumbnail Generation To Yield Better Single-Image Thumbnail Representations

Over the past several days we've explored applying ffmpeg's built-in representative frame detection "thumbnail" filter, returning to our earliest experiments…

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ChatGPT's o1-Preview "Reasoning Model" Fairs Little Better Than 4o On Our Thumbnail Experiments

Yesterday we explored the ability of ChatGPT's 4o foundational LLM to act as a brainstorming partner in the development of…

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ChatGPT's Unhelpful Take On Visually Summarizing Television News Broadcasts Through Thumbnails

Continuing our series on selecting "representative" frames from television news broadcasts to visually summarize them, thus far we've been experimenting…

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Visually Summarizing Television News Broadcasts Through Thumbnails: Algorithmic Vs Time-Based Experiments: Part 2

Continuing our experiments from yesterday creating representative thumbnails of a television news broadcast, let's look at how the two approaches…

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Scaling New Heights: Transformative Cross-GPU Sampling for Training Billion-Edge Graphs

A new paper by researchers at Wuhan University, NVIDIA and the University of Macau: Efficient training of Graph Neural Networks…

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Visually Summarizing Television News Broadcasts Through Thumbnails: Algorithmic Vs Time-Based Experiments

The Visual Explorer visually summarizes television news broadcasts through fixed 1/4fps thumbnail grids – an approach developed through extensive human…

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Comparing Television News Coverage Of Trump Vs Kamala Vs Biden

How are the two present and one former presidential candidates being covered on television news? The timeline below compares their…

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A Digital Twin Glimpse At The Internet Archive's TV News Archive: 27 Billion Seconds Over 10.9 Million Broadcasts From 327 Channels In 50+ Countries & 150+ Languages Over A Quarter-Century

Using our new BigQuery + Bigtable GCS digital twin, we can look across the entire Internet Archive's TV News Archive…

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Behind The Scenes: Network Intelligence Topology Mapping By GCP Service

Last year we explored how GCP's Network Intelligence Network Topology mapping can be used to understand the network flows across…

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WashPost: No Amount Of Evidence Will Convince Republicans Of Trump's 2020 Guilt

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Donald Trump. Read The Full Article.

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TE-LSTM: A Prediction Model for Temperature Based on Multivariate Time Series Data

In the era of big data, prediction has become a fundamental capability. Current prediction methods primarily focus on sequence elements;…

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Compiling A List Of All Non-News Broadcasts In The TV News Archive From Business Channels Over The Past Decade: Part 2

Last month we compiled a list of distinct show names marked as non-news from each of the three business news…

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WashPost: Mark Robinson Offers Up The 2024 Version Of The I-Was-Hacked Defense

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Mark Robinson. Read The Full Article.

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Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Track Historical Backfilling Progress

With our new BigQuery + Bigtable digital twin over our GCS archive, we can trivially compile ongoing inventories of our…

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Experiments With CCExtractor Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin

In December 2020 we unveiled a massive new initiative in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive to catalog…

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Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Make Date-Based Random Samples For Content Analysis & Testing

A key concept in "content analysis" methodologies over large temporally diverse archives is the notion of time-based random samples: creating…

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Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Identify Missing Channels

One of the most powerful aspects of our BigQuery-analyzable Bigtable-based GCS digital twin is the capability it makes possible to…

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CJR: Can Kamala Harris Use The Debate To Keep Her Media Momentum?

Meghnad Bose and Dhrumil Mehta examine media coverage of Kamala Harris in a piece for Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Read…

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How Much Attention Have Presidential Year Debates Gotten On TV News Over The Years? Hint: 2012 Was The Recent Peak

How much attention do presidential year debates get on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of "debate" across…

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How Are Business Television News Channels Covering Bitcoin & Crypto?

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime (in 15 sec blocks) across Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business over…

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Leveraging Bigtable For Highly Scalable Digital Twin Architectures

As we continue to load our entire historical GCS archive into our Bigtable digital twin, BigTable's remarkable scalability has allowed…

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The Covid-Era Focus On "Experts" Has Faded

During the pandemic, mentions of "experts" were everywhere as news media emphasized the credentials and expertise of those they interviewed….

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Scaling In The Cloud: Storing Billions Of Files Totaling Petabytes In GCS

One of the most remarkable aspects of working at "cloud scale" is the sheer scalability of the modern public cloud….