Data about Online News was collected using the Media Cloud dashboard, an open source suite of tools for analyzing a database of online news.
mediacloud_hurricanes.csv contains the number of sentences per day that mention Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria in online news.
mediacloud_states.csv(Updated through 10/10/2017) contains the number of sentences per day that mention Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida in online news.
mediacloud_trump.csv(Updated through 10/10/2017) contains the number of headlines that mention Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida, as well as headlines that mention those three locations along with 'President' or 'Trump'.
mediacloud_top_online_news.csv contains a list of sources included in Media Cloud's "U.S. Top Online News" collection.