Watching Our World Unfold
Exploring the events, narratives, and forces shaping our shared world.
The Covid-Era Focus On "Experts" Has Faded
Scaling In The Cloud: Storing Billions Of Files Totaling Petabytes In GCS
OCR'ing Television News: Comparing GCP Cloud Vision API, Paligemma, Tesseract, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini 1.5 Flash & GPT 4o
Leveraging Bigtable's Versioning To Visualize An Evolving Video Archive Over Time & Prioritize Reprocessing
Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin To Map The Status & Error Codes Of Analyzing A Quarter-Century Of The TV News Archive
A Timeline Of The TV News Archive: 214 Channels Over A Quarter Century
The Challenges Of Multilingualism In The The Large Model Era: Using LSMs & LMMs To Transcribe An Amharic Broadcast
Cataloging The TV News Archive By Channel Over The Past Quarter-Century: 8 Million Broadcasts & 5.65M Hours From 214 Channels
What OpenAI's Whisper Teaches Us About The Dependence Of The Large Models Revolution On YouTube
Charting The Internet Archive TV News Archive's Collection By Location Over The Past Quarter-Century
More Experiments In LLM Filtering Of TV News Shows: Adding More Detail Doesn't Improve Consistency Or Accuracy
Charting The TV News Archive's Transition From SD To HD Video Resolution
Charting The TV News Archive's Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Archive
Plotting Cumulative Archival Growth Using Our BigQuery + Bigtable + GCS Digital Twin
What Using LLMs To Filter Television News EPG Show Names For "News/Not News" Teaches Us About The Severe Limits Of GenAI
Using BigQuery's Bigtable Connector To Analyze A Petabyte GCS Archive Digital Twin
Compiling A List Of All Non-News Broadcasts In The TV News Archive From Business Channels Over The Past Decade
Can Preferences for Redistribution Explain the Impact of Austerity on Political Participation? Evidence from the UK