2019-09-09: Introducing sumgram, a tool for generating the most frequent conjoined ngrams

2021-05-10: Chronicling the life-cycle of top new stories with StoryGraphBot

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Published: May 10, 2021

@storygraphbot can track multiple stories for multiple days & travel back in time.

E.g.,
Georgia Senate Elections/Storming of the US Capitol (3 days): https://t.co/OdpFf9UA6R

2020 US Elections, part 1 (5 days) : https://t.co/L4wbsA9HP3

part 2 (2 days): https://t.co/pPi4QdpECg pic.twitter.com/xDMIeighsz

— Alexander C. Nwala (@acnwala) May 10, 2021

2021-01-20: 366 dots in 2020 - top news stories of 2020

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Published: January 20, 2021

I join the chorus to say 2020 was a year like no other, and shaped by three historic events: the Coronavirus pandemic, the protests surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, and the US Presidential elections. According to StoryGraph, in 2018, the top news story was the Kavanaugh hearings. In 2019, it was the Mueller Report. Similar to 2018 and 2019, we analyzed all news stories collected by StoryGraph at 10-minute intervals every day in 2020, to identify the top news stories of 2020. Recall how we identify top news stories, explained briefly in 365 dots in 2019 and in detail by the tech report, and repeated here for convenience.

2020-09-28: My report card to my mother

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Published: September 28, 2020

"My report card to my mother," summarizes the trajectory of my PhD research over 6 years at @ODU @WebSciDL as I join @OSoMe_IU @ Indiana University @IUBloomington as a post-doc working with Dr. Filippo Menczer

Blog: https://t.co/w7H9r0454H
Dissertation: https://t.co/r95gkiXf66 pic.twitter.com/dAytlbt2Br

— Alexander C. Nwala (@acnwala) September 28, 2020

2020-09-01: DNC vs RNC pulses - Quantifying news attention for the DNC & RNC with StoryGraph

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Published: September 01, 2020

2/3: Unlike the DNC story, the RNC story competed for attention with other stories such as
Kellyanne Conway's White House exit and George Conway's @ProjectLincoln withdrawal pic.twitter.com/djZcCeEfm1

— Alexander C. Nwala (@acnwala) September 1, 2020