Transcript Sources
- Nexis UniUse the main search option near the top of the homepage and then limit to "news transcripts" and "sources". Options to export transcripts as Word, TXT, and PDF files.
- Internet Archive's TV News ArchiveInternet Archive's TV News Archive provides free access to more than a million closed captioned clips from TV news shows dating back to 2009, with options to filter by network, show, or date range.
- Fox News: Hannity TranscriptsFox releases transcripts for many news programs.
Transcript tools (APIs, etc)
- YouTube Data ToolsUse a free visualization software like gephi to open .gdf files. .tab files can be opened in a text editor and then copied and pasted into excel.
Polling & Statistics
- Nexis UniNexisUni has Gallup Polls from 2003-present. From the Guided search, select "A publication". Enter "Gallup" in the "Find publication" field.
- StatistaStatista is an online statistics portal providing access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions.
- Pew Research Center DatasetsPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
- European Commission: Public OpinionThe Standard Eurobarometer was established in 1974. Each survey consists of approximately 1000 face-to-face interviews per country. Reports are published twice yearly. Reproduction is authorised, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged.
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)A vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, containing thousands of digital files of social science research data in political science, sociology, economics, criminal justice, and more.
Specific Polls Related to Conspiracies
- The Economist/YouGov Poll December 17 - 20, 2016 - 1376 US AdultsQuestions 46-54 pertain to conspiracy theories
- Public Policy Polling: Conspiracies (Oct 2013)Additional polling questions regarding conspiracy theory belief in the U.S.
- Emerson Polling August 2019Report on 2019 poll which covers select current conspiracies (Epstein, QAnon) with links to full poll results.
Datasets
- Harvard Dataverse: Conspiracy TheoriesHarvard Dataverse is an online data repository where you can share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. Browse conspiracy theory datasets or search for a specific sub-topic.
- GDELT: ngram datasetsone-word (1gram/unigram) and two-word (2gram/bigram) ngram/shingle word histograms at half hour resolution for television news coverage on ABC, Al Jazeera, BBC News, CBS, CNN, DeutscheWelle, FOX, Fox News, NBC, PBS, Russia Today, Telemundo and Univision, using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Some of these ngram datasets stretch back more than a decade to 2009.
- GDELT: Emotions of American Television2009-2016 The 1GB GZIP file will uncompress to around 3.3GB and contains one ASCII text file per emotion. Each emotion file has a very simple format: each row contains the measurement of that emotion for a given day/station triple. The first column lists the day in YYYYMMDD format, the second is the station, third is the number of total words of closed captioning analyzed for that station on that day, while the fourth column contains the score.
- 200,000 Deleted Russian Troll Tweetsexcel, csv, and google sheets
GDELT Television Explorer andExamples
- GDELT: Television ExplorerCreates charts and analysis based on keywords of news captions using the TV News Archive. They also have an API: https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-television-api-debuts/
Epoch Times
- Epoch TImesBGSU provides full text access to the Epoch times from 2012-2019 through ProQuest Newsstand. Articles can be exported into PDF or copied from the print screen.
