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Will Facebook Replace The News Media?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the ways in which Facebook is reshaping the landscape of global journalism. Read the Full…

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Hacking The US Election: How The Worlds Of Cyberwarfare And Politics Are Colliding Spectacularly

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how cyberwarfare is playing a growing and evolving role in electoral politics and the potential…

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What Facebook's Aftenposten Censorship Teaches Us About Facebook's Role As Worldwide Editor In Chief

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the Facebook Aftenposten photograph censorship and what it tells us about Facebook's growing influence over…

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Analysing World Events Using the GDELT dataset and Google BigQuery

Ali Niknejad of the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London will be speaking at the Research Software Engineers…

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Smithsonian Covers Twitter Social Activism

Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Kalev for an article out this month on how Black Lives Matter and other social activism groups…

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What Is A Data Scientist And Should We Instead Be Talking About Data Teams?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what it really means to talk about "data scientists" and the collaborative nature of modern…

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How The Cloud Stands To Reshape Academic Computing

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the commercial cloud is reshaping the academic and HPC environments. Read the Full Article.

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The Big Data Era of Mosaicked Deidentification: Can We Anonymize Data Anymore?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the world of mosaicked deidentification and whether we can truly anonymize data anymore. Read the…

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How Cell Phones Can Map The CIA: Is Location Secrecy Dead?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the landscape of location privacy in the digital era and how cell phones can be…

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Announcing Partitioned GDELT BigQuery Tables

As GDELT has grown to truly extraordinary scale, the sheer magnitude of all of that data has made it increasingly…

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Mongabay: GDELT: Mining And Mapping Global Wildlife Crime News

Julia John wrote this great piece for Mongabay's WildTech about GDELT's wildlife crime mapping. Read the Full Article.

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Independent Candidates Added To Television Candidate Tracker

It is truly incredible and humbling to be able to create tools that are used all over the world. While created…

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Is Government Secrecy Dead In The Internet And Social Media Era?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores whether the internet and social media era is bringing with it an end to the…

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Visual GKG To Be First GDELT Gen 3 Release

We're tremendously excited to announce that the first new system of the forthcoming GDELT Generation 3 release will be coming shortly…

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VGKG Adds Perceptual Hashing For Image Similarity Search

We're excited to announce that with the release of the new version of the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) in the…

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VGKG Adds EXIF Support

We're excited to announce that with the release of the new version of the Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) in the…

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BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Social Unrest July Update 2016

BBVA's latest report, "Geo-World: Conflict & Social Unrest July Update 2016" features a number of fascinating visuals charting the state…

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Why Apple's Patent To Disable Your Phone's Camera Is So 1984

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the changing landscape of privacy in the digital era and how our consumer products don't…

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Can Algorithms Save Us From Bias?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how new research suggests algorithmic bias can not only be quantified, but also corrected for….

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How Pokémon And Location-Based Augmented Reality Could Save The Planet

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how augmented reality and location-based games like Pokemon could help save the planet. Read the…

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Why Government Needs Data Privacy Policies

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how governments are making use of all of the data they collect about their citizens,…

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Why Does The Government Struggle So Much With Innovation?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores why the US Government struggles so much with innovation. It was subsequently cited in…

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How Cyberwar From Hacking To GPS Jamming Is Changing The Face Of Society

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the growing role of consumer-accessible GPS jamming and hacking tools in reshaping cyberwarfare. Read the…

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What Today's Delta Outage Teaches Us About The Public Cloud

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what Delta's worldwide computer outage teaches us about the growing role of the public cloud….