Author: Kalev Leetaru
We Already Screen Cell Phones At The Border, Will Social Media Be Any Different?
Lost in all the furor over the White House proposal to screen cell phones and social media at the border…
Television Explorer Hourly Timeline, Boolean OR and Increased JSON Cap
The latest update to the Television Explorer debuted this morning, which added several new features: Hourly Timeline. Now when selecting…
How The 'Rogue' Twitter Accounts Rewrote How We Communicate Science In The Social Era
As trusted authoritative scientific sources give way to anonymous “rogue” social media accounts, will we have to rethink how we…
Changes To How GDELT Handles Full Text Search
As part of our transition of all of GDELT's current and forthcoming full text search features over to an ElasticSearch…
What The 'Rogue' EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social
The intense popularity of these new “rogue” Twitter accounts presents unique challenges for the future of how government communicates with…
153 Forbes Articles And Counting
We're excited to announce that as of this afternoon, GDELT Founder Kalev Leetaru has written 153 articles for Forbes over…
Why Are We So Afraid Of Petabytes?
Silicon Valley has commoditized the petabyte, yet why is the broader data science community still stuck in the gigabyte era?…
Building An ElasticSearch Cluster To Search The Planet
When it comes to exploring patterns in GDELT’s immense data archives stretching back two centuries, nothing on this earth can…
What If Facebook And Twitter Made You Read An Article Before You Could Share It?
Could social media platforms require users to prove they read an article before they could share it and would this…
Why Aren't We Doing More With Our Web Archives?
Archives of the web like the Internet Archive offer us an incredible glimpse into the digitization of human society, so…
When Cybersecurity Meets Physical Security
As the physical world becomes ever-more-enmeshed in the virtual one, securing the physical world requires much greater attention to the…
Do Social Media Platforms Really Care About Online Abuse?
Without greater incentives to fight online abuse, it is unlikely that we will see much in the way of a…
What If Deep Learning Was Given Command Of A Botnet?
The intersection of deep learning and cybersecurity has to date focused largely on defensive applications, but what might the offensive…
Why 2016 Was Not The Year Of Virtual Reality
Virtual reality still has many obstacles to overcome before mainstream adoption, from hardware cost to a lack of content to…
What Reaction To The Russian Hacking Report Teaches Us About Data Science
A key takeaway from global reaction to the US Government’s report on Russian hacking is that as data scientists we…
The Real Russian Hacking Story: A Nation Underdefended From Cyberattack
Instead of focusing on whether or to what degree Russian hackers targeted the US election, why aren’t we talking about…
Television Explorer Interactive Time Zooming
As part of the latest release of the Television Explorer, the volume timeline now supports interactive time zooming in which…
Television Explorer Now Includes BBC News
We're excited to announce that with the Internet Archive's recent addition of BBC News to its monitoring archive, the Television…
Introduction The New Television Explorer Top Clips
In addition to the Television Explorer's new Top Terms Word Cloud, we are also excited today to announce the release…
Introducing The Television Explorer Top Terms Word Cloud
We are immensely excited to announce today the latest version of our new Television Explorer, a collaboration with the Internet…
The Internet Archive's New Donald Trump And White House Archives: Transparency And History As Data
Taken together, the Internet Archive’s new Trump Archive and its 20-year US Government web archive offer a vision of a…
How The Washington Post's Defense Of Its Russian Hacking Story Unraveled Through Web Archiving
How the Internet Archive’s historical snapshots of the Post’s story on Russian hackers undermined the Post’s defense and shed light…
Harvard Magazine: What Drives Successful Crowdsourcing?
Michael Fitzgerald's article "What Drives Successful Crowdsourcing?" in the January-February 2017 issue of Harvard Magazine mentions the GDELT Project. Read…
'Fake News' And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid
What the Washington Post’s rush to be the first to report on Russian hackers breaching the US power grid teaches…