| media_mentions_2020 {fivethirtyeight} | R Documentation |
2020 Presidential Candidates Media Mentions
Description
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/
Usage
media_mentions_cable
media_mentions_online
Format
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.
media_mentions_cable
A data frame with 972 rows representing weeks of cable coverage and 7 variables:
- date
start date for the week of coverage
- name
candidate's name
- matched_clips
number of 15-second clips in that week that mention the specified candidate
- all_candidate_clips
number of 15-second clips in that week that mention any candidates
- total_clips
total number of 15-second clips that week across the three networks
- pct_of_all_candidate_clips
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
query used for the GDELT Television API
media_mentions_online
A data frame with 954 rows representing weeks and 6 variables:
- date
start date for the week of coverage
- name
candidate's name
- matched_stories
number of stories in that week that mention the specified candidate
- all_candidate_stories
number of stories in that week that mention any candidate
- pct_of_all_candidate_stories
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
query for Media Cloud
Source
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