2020-09-01: DNC vs RNC pulses - Quantifying news attention for the DNC & RNC with StoryGraph
Figure 1 (click figure to enlarge): Illustration of the level of attention given to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) story by news organization measured with StoryGraph's longitudinal data. The y-axis represents the average degree or attention score of the Connected Components (CC) which represents stories about the DNC story and other stories (e.g., Mail voting - green diamond) that occurred between August 17 and August 21, 2020 (x-axis). The four annotated peaks --- with average degree median 11.88 --- of the DNC story corresponds with discussions surrounding Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden. The subscripts represent the document frequencies of the bigram annotations. For example ," Michelle Obama " occurred 31 times in the text of the CC documents. The Democratic Party held the Democratic National Convention (DNC) from August 17, 2020 to August 20, 2020. The following week, from August 24 to August 27, the Republican Party held the Repub...