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January 2021
Vaccine Media Coverage Dominates, But Which Vaccine?
See our Vaccine Dashboard insights here.
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Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has consumed headlines and taken its toll. However, most recently it’s the vaccines that have become equally important as the disease they are used to inoculate against. We’ve put together a dashboard compiling all the media coverage related to the Covid-19 vaccines to analyze everything from their share of voice, sentiment, and trends.
Since the beginning of our collection of articles, in October of 2020, the Pfizer vaccine has dominated coverage. That continues to be the case in the past few weeks of January. This could be due to the fact that Pfizer has been in the headlines recently due to issues with delayed deliveries to Canada and shortages across Europe. In addition to the fact that Pfizer is one of the main vaccine purchases to the Unite States.
However, on a more granular look at the trends section, we can see what vaccines have gained in mention during a particular period. Just yesterday, Johnson & Johnson’s share of voice shot up a whopping 221%, placing just second to Covid-19 in article mentions. Unsurprising as the world waits with bated breath for its vaccine to conclude its clinical trial and release the results next week.
While it may be easy to expect any announcement regarding a vaccine clinical trial result to get massive media coverage given how dominant the pandemic is in the news, that’s not entirely the case. If we look at density of media coverage over time from November 2020 to January 2021, there’s a clear and visible spike in late-November for the Moderna vaccine. Far greater than the spike for Pfizer only a week earlier. These spikes correspond to the dates when each respective company released findings for the effectiveness of their vaccines.
What contributed to such a difference in coverage for equally positive news? Maybe Moderna’s PR team didn’t rest so much on the belief that any clinical findings release would generate coverage on its own. Whatever the reason, as long as Covid-19 is paralyzing the globe, the vaccines will continue to make headlines to varying degrees.
To keep up to date with all vaccine related coverage make sure to visit our Vaccine Dashboard insights here.
Photo by Hakan Nural on Unsplash
October 2020
Trump’s Tweet Storm Analyzed
Donald Trump has been famous for his prolific tweeting since the start of his first presidential bid in 2015. He has changed the way politicians communicate with the general public, trying to sideline the “bias filter” of the media. We took a look at a year’s worth of Trump’s tweets last week as part of our news analytics work. Thought we would share with all of you. Feel free to peruse the live dashboard here. Some high level thoughts from my own review of the data.
To start with, Trump tweeted 10,441 times in the course of a full calendar year. On some of his peak days, @realDonaldTrump issued as many as 150 tweets. Before we let productivity envy set in, we should keep in mind that he has a full team on this 24/7, managed by Dan Scavino, the White House head of Comms. Given his role, Scavino has been relatively modest towards himself – having @realDonaldTrump retweet his own tweets only 30 times in the calendar year. Pat on the back for that, Dan.
More interesting, our analysis points to Trump’s most popular tweets by likes and retweets. Most popular all year long? The tweet announcing that he and FLOTUS got Covid. Tweets related to Trump’s treatment for Covid dominate the top-5 list for the entire year! Much as Covid dominates sentiment in the capital markets these days, it grabs the most attention here as well.
Also, looking at the most popular hashtags all year – MAGA is by far #1. Then Covid, again as #2, then KAG – the 2020 version of MAGA. If nothing else, Trump’s team understands the importance of consistency of messaging. Keep hammering the same points. Second pat on the back for Dan.
There’s a lot more there. For instance looking at the entities Trump is tweeting about, and the sentiment accorded to each. These entities are ranked by their frequency of mentions. Much could be read into these numbers. Most of it starts to reveal political bias, which we don’t want to exude in our own writing here. Just the analytics and the facts.
If you’d like to take a look at our MediaSignal product for news analytics and monitoring, you can get more information here.
Photo credit to Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, via Creative Commons
August 2019
New Live Dashboard: 2020 Democratic Primaries
New Live Dashboard: 2020 Democratic Primaries
August 26, 2019
Live Coverage
Science4Data has published a new media dashboard! Based on popular demand, we are digging further into the upcoming presidential primaries. Its a crowded field with a lot on the line. We are tracking news related top candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination. This dashboard provides a small example of the GetRisk Info analysis on this topic with live, interactive insights.
Science4Data provides these one-of-a-kind perspectives and insight through:
- Scouring and curating articles from the most germane sites and channels
- State-of-the-art natural language process and machine learning based analysis of every article across dozens of metrics and interests
- Automated dimension and aggregation of article analysis
- Intelligent, intuitive data visualization and exploration
About Science4Data
Science4Data pairs human-driven risk analysis with machine-driven news and market monitoring. Our team continues to lead a changing industry of geopolitical risk tracking by crafting the tools necessary for ingesting, parsing, categorizing and identifying the events, entities, and projected effects of what’s happening this month, this week, and right now.
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July 2019
Facebook Regulation Coverage
Facebook Regulation Coverage
July 31, 2019
Live Coverage
Check out Science4Data’s new media dashboard. We are tracking news related to government investigation and potential regulation surrounding Facebook. Our dashboard provides a small example of the GetRisk Info analysis on this topic with live, interactive insights.
There’s no question, big technology plays an enormous role in society today. These behemoth platforms provide both a foundation and a barrier for new enterprises.
Are their practices anti-competitive?
Are they doing enough to safeguard the privacy of their users?
Must they be our stewards of truth and fairness?
What role will US and foreign governments step into to ensure these questions are answered to the standard of our times?
Supporting the most significant social media platforms, facing fines at home, censure across the globe, and a murky mandate for the future, Facebook stands at the forefront of the big tech regulation conversation.
Will Facebook business operations and stakeholder value be significantly changed as a result of regulatory action across their markets?
What will those implications mean for the wider technology industry?
Clues to these answers lie dormant in the news and conversation surrounding the debate. Join Science4Data as we analyze the spectrum of news coverage around Facebook Regulation Threats, finding the insights important to leaders, influencers, investors and policy makers.
Review our Facebook dashboard today and contact us any time to learn how Science4Data can accelerate media analysis for the issues most important to your business.
About Science4Data
Science4Data pairs human-driven risk analysis with machine-driven news and market monitoring. Our team continues to lead a changing industry of geopolitical risk tracking by crafting the tools necessary for ingesting, parsing, categorizing and identifying the events, entities, and projected effects of what’s happening this month, this week, and right now.
Have a current event or trend you would like us to analyze? Submit it now!
June 2019
Intro to Geopolitical Risk Analysis
Geopolitical Risk Analysis with Science4Data and GetRisk.Info
June 26, 2019
Be prepared: The Importance of Geopolitical Risk Analysis
The world is shrinking. Risk is growing. Any organization
- engaging in trade
- depending on public opinion
- subject to consumer sentiment
- expanding markets
must be aware of the external forces and risks that may impact their operation.
PESTEL Analysis provides an effective framework for measuring the magnitude and risk of external factors relative to an organization as whole or specific areas of interest.
An effective PESTEL Analysis provides an organization with information they need to:
- make critical decisions
- mitigate threats to operations
- take advantage of opportunities presented
Performing PESTEL Analysis: Challenges and Solutions
A thorough PESTEL analysis is a critical tool to the organization, but requires overcoming important obstacles:
- Most pertinent PESTEL information is outside of the organization and unstructured
- Finding, Filtering, Managing and Extracting Value from that External Data is Complex
- Proliferation of Risk and Instability
- More volatile, higher stakes world
- Communications Warfare
- Changing landscape and erosion of globalization
- Growing risk of malicious misinformation
- Risks change with a Tweet
- Requires challenging, specialized analysis – two common approaches may fall short:
| Approach One | Approach Two |
| Internally Source | Agency or Consultancy |
| Devote significant internal staffing, time and resources to researching external factors and compiling analysis. Efforts may include re purposing business analysis staff, syndicated information subscriptions, in depth review and summary across resources. | Hire an external firm to perform this analysis. The work is similar to internally staffing the effort however the outside firm may have specialized skill sets or prepackaged reporting to reuse. Engagement may include one time efforts or ongoing maintenance. |
Limitations may include:
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Limitations may include:
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A Third Approach
By harnessing emerging technologies and coupling with outstanding subject expertise, Science4Data is addressing these limitations and transforming Geopolitical Risk Assessment with the GetRisk.Info platform.
GetRisk.Info: Platform Overview
GetRisk.Info combines geopolitical risk fluency with the latest in Big Data, AI and Cloud technology to provide real-time insights and analysis across news & media sources.
 News & Media Integration |
Leverage the power of Custom Search Engines, Domain Configuration and flexible Query Groups to lock on to the data assets most important to your organization |
 Human Augmented AI |
Artificial Intelligence dramatically accelerates your understanding and annotation of critical information. Select the Cognitive Processing model that fits your business needs and GetRisk.Info does the heavy lifting. |
 Machine Learning Based Natural Language Processing |
Trained Algorithms isolate critical Entities, PESTEL scope, Risk and Sentiment in seconds. |
 Big Data Crunching |
Collate and analyze findings across thousands of articles. Easily compare perspectives and trends to isolate True Signal from the background noise inherit to this vast data. |
 Dashboard Based Insight Exploration and Presentation |
Explore the findings with illustrative data visualizations. Intuitively identify the trends and events that let you decisively predict organization impact. Provide your own commentary and present finished reports suitable for all your stakeholders. |
Learn More
Contact Science4Data today to schedule a demo and learn more about how GetRisk.Info transforms Geopolitical Risk Analysis.
About Science4Data
Science4Data pairs human-driven risk analysis with machine-driven news and market monitoring. Our team continues to lead a changing industry of geopolitical risk tracking by crafting the tools necessary for ingesting, parsing, categorizing and identifying the events, entities, and projected effects of what’s happening this month, this week, and right now.
Have a current event or trend you would like us to analyze? Submit it now!
Democratic Candidate PESTEL Positioning
Science4Data’s Signal Series: Scope of Political Campaigns
June 11, 2019
Overview
The race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination is crowded and at the forefront of many conversations. Can a front runner emerge with cohesive political and popular support? We use Science4Data’s GetRisk.Info platform to quickly identify important insights.
Analysis
Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, GetRisk.Info applies and calculates the PESTEL scope across broad media coverage of the race.
PESTEL is a tool used by analysts across industries and provides an excellent framework for understanding the relative magnitude of external forces in the context of a specific event, entity or organization.
Of course we would expect Politics to dominate any dialog related to presidential candidacy. Are Trade, Technology and the Environment underrepresented? Is this scope consistent for all candidates? We easily shift the scope of the assessment from the broad cycle to news coverage on the individual presidential hopefuls (we stuck to CNN’s power ranking top ten).
The Candidates
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Joe Biden Media coverage for the former Vice President “fits” with broader coverage with a lower emphasis on Legal |
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Bernie Sanders Articles on the Vermont Senator include more emphasis on Society and the Economy |
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Kamala Harris The Senator from California enjoys the most well-rounded coverage of any of the candidates |
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Pete Buttigieg PESTEL scope of the South Bend Mayor’s media closely fits the wider pattern |
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Elizabeth Warren The Massachusetts Senator is one of two candidates without Politics as the #1 PESTEL topic |
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Beto O’Rourke The former Representative joins Harris in over indexing on Environmental topics |
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Amy Klobuchar More well-rounded than most, Society dominates the PESTEL of the Minnesota Senator’s media coverage |
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Cory Booker News for the New Jersey Senator’s candidacy is decidedly Politic in scope |
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Kirsten Gillibrand The New York Senator’s media coverage contains a definitive Social element |
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Julián Castro The PESTEL for the former Cabinet member matches closely with broader campaign scope |
Takeaways
While the experts at Science4Data want to know what happened to Technology; missing Trade scope across all candidates is the most glaring hole in the media coverage across the entire campaign. Environmental topics are strongly associated with two specific candidates.
Analysis Coverage: Over 500 of the most recent news articles from highly respected news outlets across the political spectrum
Total Analyst Time: 3 hours
Accurately assess and analyze volumes of media in a morning. Improve your insights with the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing. The GetRisk.Info platform makes it easy. Contact us to learn more.
About Science4Data
Science4Data pairs human-driven risk analysis with machine-driven news and market monitoring. Our team continues to lead a changing industry of geopolitical risk tracking by crafting the tools necessary for ingesting, parsing, categorizing and identifying the events, entities, and projected effects of what’s happening this month, this week, and right now.
Have a current event or trend you would like us to analyze? Submit it now!
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