Month: June 2014
GDELT Makes Appearance at Google I/O 2014 Developer Conference
Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani's talk at Google I/O 2014 titled "Predicting the future with the Google Cloud Platform" gives…
ACM WEBSCI2014 Data Challenge Winner
From the Global Twitter Heartbeat to the SyFy Opposite Worlds Show to the non-Western world (and many more to be announced shortly) the GDELT Project…
Predicting Violence in Sudan for Humanitarian Relief
This paper from the Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) 2014 conference builds a series of models using GDELT…
Using Global Media Tone for Leadership Assessment of Assad and Putin
Kalev's latest Foreign Policy column explores how the emotional "tone" of global news coverage of Syria's Assad and Russia's Putin…
Columbia Journalism School Studies Media Coverage of Syrian Conflict Using GDELT
Students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism created this fantastic in-depth and interactive look at how the global news…
GDELT Featured in May Roundup of Google Cloud Blog
The May 2014 roundup of the Google Cloud Blog prominently mentions GDELT's availability in Google's BigQuery database platform! Read the…
Virginia Tech Paper Explores Forecasting Domestic Political Crises Using GDELT
Researchers at Virginia Tech used GDELT to explore forecasting of domestic political crises using subgraph mining. Read the Full Paper.
Mapping the Syrian Conflict
Last week Palantir released the visualization below that it produced in collaboration with the Carter Center mapping conflict events in…
West Point Study Explores GDELT for Decision Making
A new study published by researchers at the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West…
Wired Opinion Piece on the Future of Sentiment Mining
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru recently wrote an opinion piece for Wired on the state of sentiment mining, where it is…
New GDELT Website Debuts!
We're incredibly excited to unveil the beautiful new GDELT Project website to you! The new site does a vastly…
Bloomberg Covers GDELT in "Saving the World"
GDELT gets a prominent mention in a special Bloomberg feature on big data titled "Saving the World? How Big Data…