Month: April 2014
GDELT Cited In Gentzkow Interview
Clark Medal winner Matthew Gentzkow cites GDELT in his interview out today with Nieman Lab. Read the Full Interview.
Kalev Speaks at Data Community DC
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke to a packed house at Data Community DC's April meeting on his lessons learned from…
Georgetown University Feature – The Wizard of Big Data
Georgetown University profiled GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru in a special interactive feature titled "The Wizard of Big Data." Read the…
GDELT At GEOINT 2014 on GEOINT Foreword Panel
We were incredibly honored to present an overview of GDELT today on the GEOINT Foreward Panel on Human Geography at GEOINT…
Paper Explores Bilateral and Multilateral Causal Events in GDELT
Researchers at Tapjoy and the University of Virginia Department of Sociology used GDELT for their SBP data challenge paper "Discovering Bilateral…
SBP 2014 Grand Data Challenge Winner
Its always incredibly exciting to see all of the different ways that GDELT is being applied and it is especially…
From Big Data to Global Diplomacy: Today and Tomorrow
Today Kalev's Yahoo! Conference was held Georgetown University, titled "From Big Data to Global Diplomacy: Today and Tomorrow" and featuring presentations…
Working with GDELT in Python: A Quick Tutorial
Python has become an increasingly popular language for rapidly working with large datasets. James Houghton has a great quick tutorial…
Wall Street Journal Discussion of Twitter Geolocation
GDELT Creator Kalev Leetaru is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing the geolocation "arms race" and the emerging focus on the…
TimeMapper: Rwanda
With today being the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, we've received a number of requests for visualizations and…
Understanding Megacities
Megacities will play an outsized role in global politics and national stability over the coming decades with some estimates suggesting…