Using FFMPEG's Scene Detection To Generate A Visual Shot Summary Of Television News
The first step in breaking a television news broadcast down into "stories" is to segment it into distinct visual "scenes"….
Using FFMPEG's "BlackDetect" Filter To Identify Commercial Blocks
A common methodology for detecting commercials in television news is to scan for the tell-tale "fade to black" used to…
A Vision For A Multidisciplinary Covid-19 Communication & Behavioral Research Initiative And Incubator To Combat Misinformation
What might it look like to construct a research initiative and incubator that would support collaborative multidisciplinary multimodal research into…
Understanding Television News Through Onscreen Text OCR
While much of the work on television news has focused on speech recognition and caption search, through the Visual Global…
Using Tesseract To OCR Television News: A Case Study Of CNN & Bloomberg News
How accurate is the open-source tesseract OCR package on television news and could it be used to recover a reasonable…
Distilling Issue Cycles From Large Databases: A Time-Series Analysis Of Terrorism And Media In Africa
This analysis uses GDELT as a source for issue cycle media analysis around terrorism events in Africa: Analyzing issue cycles…
Fear-Anger Cycles: Governmental And Populist Politics Of Emotion
A new research initiative by Jorg Friedrichs and Niklas Stoehr at Oxford University is comparing tweets and news coverage from…
CJR: MSNBC Public Editor: Why The Show Must Not Go On
CJR's MSNBC Public Editor Maria Bustillos used the TV Explorer to track mentions of "corrupt republicans" and "corrupt democrats" on…
An Example Of Using The New Television News Advertisement Inventories To Filter A News Broadcast
Earlier this week we announced the forthcoming release of a new dataset inventorying all of the advertising airtime in the…
Research At Archives Scale
As part of our incredible ongoing research collaborations with the Internet Archive, we frequently work at collections scale, running complex…
'Dr.' Jill Biden? Critics of Op-Ed Often Omitted the Title
Last week an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Epstein provoked a heated debate over the use…
Learning from History: Modeling Temporal Knowledge Graphs With Sequential Copy-Generation Networks
This interesting analysis uses GDELT as a source temporal knowledge graph: Large knowledge graphs often grow to store temporal facts…
Global Embedded Metadata Graph Updates And Backfile Coming Soon
A number of our announced updates to the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, including automatic JSON-LD correction and enhanced handling of…
High Resolution Advertisement Exclusion Inventories Coming For Television News
When exploring datasets like the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0, one key challenge in interpreting the results lies in being…
A Glimpse Behind The Scenes At How We Perform Mass Ingest And Transformation Workflows In the Cloud
How do we orchestrate our mass ingest and transformation workflows when performing some of our largest analyses? Once data is…
Climate Change Soars Back Onto Television News
Climate change all but disappeared from television news in early March as the pandemic spread, but since August has been…
CNN Mentions Death More Than 2.5x MSNBC And Fox News Combined This Year
Fox News received criticism yesterday for failing to devote substantial airtime to recent increases in Covid-19 deaths. Yet how does its lack…
"Mass Transit" Has Disappeared From Television News Since 2017
Despite being a centerpiece of the Green New Deal and a Democratic priority, mentions of the words "mass transit" and…
Immigration Has All But Disappeared From Television News
Immigration was once one of the centerpieces of Donald Trump's administrative priorities, but suddenly in September 2019 it all but…
Mentions Of "Men" Versus "Women" On Television News
As gender diversity issues have attracted more attention in recent years, it is worth noting that the timeline below of…
Most Mentions Of Food Banks On Television News In A Decade
Over the past decade, food banks have received only a small number of monthly mentions on television news. Beginning with…
Global Geographic Graph Reaches 1.9 Billion Entries
The Global Geographic Graph running 2017-present has reached 1.9 billion records! Learn More.
Television News Mentions Of Unemployment Decreases
Mentions of unemployment dropped sharply from late 2012 as the 2008 recession recovered, but began to pick up again in…
"Small" Versus "Large" On Television News
Mentions of the word "large" have decreased slightly over the past decade, but interestingly, mentions of the word "small" were…