The raw data behind the story "Beto O'Rourke Ignored Cable News - And It Ignored Him" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/beto-orourke-ignored-cable-news-and-it-ignored-him/
media_mentions_cable media_mentions_online
2 dataframes about 2020 presidential candidate media mentions
An object of class spec_tbl_df (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 954 rows and 6 columns.
The GDELT Television API https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-television-api-debuts/, which processes the data from the TV News Archive https://archive.org/details/tv.
Two collections in the Media Cloud https://mediacloud.org/ database U.S. Top Online News https://sources.mediacloud.org/#/collections/58722749 and U.S. Top Digital Native News https://sources.mediacloud.org/#/collections/57078150
A data frame with 972 rows representing weeks of cable coverage and 7 variables:
start date for the week of coverage
candidate's name
number of 15-second clips in that week that mention the specified candidate
number of 15-second clips in that week that mention any candidates
total number of 15-second clips that week across the three networks
percentage of clips in which that specific candidate is mentioned out of all clips mentioning any candidate for that week (matched_clips / all_candidate_clips)
query used for the GDELT Television API
A data frame with 954 rows representing weeks and 6 variables:
start date for the week of coverage
candidate's name
number of stories in that week that mention the specified candidate
number of stories in that week that mention any candidate
percentage of stories in which that specific candidate is mentioned out of all stories mentioning any candidate for that week (matched_stories / all_candidate_stories)
query for Media Cloud