Author: Kalev Leetaru
BuzzFeed: Which Sexual Misconduct Allegations Are Getting The Most Attention On Cable News?
BuzzFeed looks at which sexual misconduct cases are getting the most attention. Read The Full Article.
The Trace: Data Shows Shrinking Cable News Cycles for This Fall’s Mass Shootings
The Trace examines how cable news is devoting less and less attention to mass shootings. Read The Full Article.
Web Summit And Building Bridges Across Geography And Technology
Conferences like Web Summit that bridge the technical and non-technical worlds, combining the people who build technological tools with the…
From Passive Host To Active Moderator: Why We Must Have Visibility Into Facebook's Algorithms
As Facebook rolls out laudable new initiatives like its counter-terrorism and counter-suicide programs, the company’s transition towards actively moderating its…
Ubering To Loading Docks: Mailing Addresses As Location In the GPS Era
As we become ever more dependent on GPS navigation, mailing addresses have been repurposed as pedestrian addresses, creating an entertaining…
In A VoIP World Why Does It Still Cost $20 For A 10 Minute International Call?
Even while companies have rushed to move their workforces to VoIP, they have largely left customers to fend for themselves…
What The Net Neutrality Comments Bot Army Teaches Us About The Future Of Citizen Feedback
In a world in which bots increasingly act on our behalves, we should be focusing on digital signatures and authenticating…
What Facebook's Latest Revenge Porn Effort Gets Wrong
A laudable and critical step towards fighting revenge porn, how might Facebook’s latest effort be redesigned to better address safety…
Announcing GDELT Summary
Since the launch of the GDELT DOC 2.0 and GEO 2.0 APIs earlier this year, they've become developer staples for…
BBVA: Big Data Spain 2017: Monitoring World Geopolitics Through Big Data: Video
You can watch the video below of Tomasa Rodrigo and Alvaro Ortiz's fantastic talk titled "Monitoring World Geopolitics Through Big…
BBVA: Big Data Spain 2017: Monitoring World Geopolitics Through Big Data
Tomasa Rodrigo and Alvaro Ortiz presented this fantastic talk titled "Monitoring World Geopolitics Through Big Data" at Big Data Spain…
BBVA: Tracking China Vulnerability in Real Time Using Big Data: The CVSI Index
Alvaro Ortiz presented BBVA's "Tracking China Vulnerability in Real Time Using Big Data: The CVSI Index" at the Big Data…
Video: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference 2017 Keynote
The video of Kalev's keynote at Bucknell University's 2017 Digital Scholarship Conference is now available. Watch it below!
Vox: Sean Hannity Has Become The Media’s Top Conspiracy Theorist
Vox uses GDELT to trace how broadcast news covers conspiracy theories. Read The Full Article.
Web Summit 2017 Video
Watch the full video of Kalev's Web Summit 2017 talk below!
TECH News: WebSummit Interview
TECH News interviewed Kalev at WebSummit this week. Read More.
Forecasting Civil Unrest Using Social Media and Protest Participation Theory
Congyu Wu and Matthew Gerber combined GDELT with Twitter data to explore forecasting civil unrest in the Arab Spring. Read…
SEG 2017: Public Perception Of Fracking
Kalev Leetaru and Hannes Leetaru presented a poster on "Public Perception of Fracking" at the "2017 SEG/SPE Workshop on injection-induced…
FiveThirtyEight: All The Cable News Networks Are Covering The ‘Russia Story’ — Just Not The Same One
Dhrumil Mehta's latest FiveThirtyEight analysis uses data from the Television Explorer to compare how the major television networks are covering…
Web Summit 2017 This Week
Kalev will be speaking this week at Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal at noon on November 8th. Billed as…
The Palm Oil Industry: Visualized through Big Data
This study coauthored with Gabriel Thoumi uses data from Bloomberg and other financial databases, a set of PERL scripts and…
GDELT Passes One Billion Articles Processed
We're incredibly excited to announce that GDELT recently passed an incredible milestone: more than one billion global news articles processed….
GDELT + Internet Archive = 5.4 Billion URLs And 221TB Of News Content Preserved
In August 2014 GDELT joined the Internet Archive's "No More 404" program to provide a live stream of global news…
NPM gdelt-toolkit 0.3.1
James Conkling has released version 0.3.1 of an NPM interface to GDELT. Learn More – NPM Website. Learn More –…