Author: Kalev Leetaru
The What – When – Where of Global Water Security
An analysis using the GKG to model global water security issues. Read The Full Article.
GDELT + Google Cloud Natural Language API
With the public announcement today of Google Cloud Natural Language API, we are excited to announce that GDELT has been an early…
GDELT + Cloud Cloud Speech API
With the public announcement today of Google Cloud Speech API Beta, we are excited to announce that GDELT has been an…
What Turkey's Attempted Coup Looked Like Through GDELT's Eyes
For those of you wondering what Turkey's attempted coup looked like through GDELT's eyes, the timeline below shows the sudden…
Do Americans Care About The Rest Of The World?
The Google Trends team put together this incredible map showing how often Americans searched about each country in the world…
Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking Symposium
Kalev spoke yesterday at the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking Symposium at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's headquarters here in…
Does Brexit Herald A New Era For Big Data-Driven Forecasting?
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how traditional polling, prediction markets and superforecasters all failed to robustly predict Brexit and how new…
Ben Parker: Brexit And The Rise Of Hate Speech
IRIN's Ben Parker put together this great quick visual showing the dramatic increase in discussion of racist, xenophobic and similar…
A Deep Dive Into The News Media’s Role In The Rise Of Donald J. Trump
John Sides and Kalev Leetaru collaborated on "A Deep Dive Into The News Media’s Role In The Rise Of Donald…
Charleston Conference Speaker
Kalev will be speaking at the Charleston Conference this coming October 31 to November 5, 2016 alongside a who's who of…
Deep Learning VGKG Reaches 84 Million Images!
We're incredibly excited to announce that as of early this afternoon the GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has reached…
GDELT Blog Reaches 800 Posts!
Yesterday the GDELT Blog reached an incredible milestone: its 800th post! From massive new dataset announcements to helpful tutorials, technical…
A Look Around The World At How News Websites Are Adopting Google's AMP HTML
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the news industry is evolving in a "mobile first" web and maps the spread…
Television As Data: Mapping 6 Years of American Television News
Kalev's latest Forbes piece maps the last six years of American television as seen through the Internet Archive's Television News…
The Democratization Of Big Data Is A Big Win For Democracy
Google's cloud big data and machine learning blog features a post by Felipe Hoffa that features an analysis using GDELT….
Mapping The Spread Of Google's AMP Mobile Pages
Beginning April 22, 2016 GDELT began monitoring all articles for Google AMP HTML and Mobile alternate URLs and recording this…
An Animated Daily Map Of American Television News 2009-2016
Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a city/landmark-level animation mapping every location on earth mentioned at least 3 or more times in a given…
A City-Level Look At 6 Years Of American Television
Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a city/landmark-level map visualizing the every location on earth mentioned at least 5 or more…
Choropleth Mapping 6 Years of American Television
Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a choropleth map visualizing the total number of times each country in the world has…
Alex Bresler's gdeltr2 Package
Alex Bresler created this truly fantastic R package called "gdeltr2" that offers a powerful set of R interfaces to an ever-growing…
Strata + Hadoop World Keynote Global Happiness Map
Attendee Walid Mehanna tweeted this fantastic image of Jordan Tigani's Strata + Hadoop World keynote that featured, among other topics,…
GDELT Featured In Strata + Hadoop World Keynote
In his keynote presentation at Strata + Hadoop World in London two weeks ago, Jordan Tigani featured how GDELT is…
Google Cloud Platform Global User Conference NEXT 2016
GDELT was mentioned briefly during the "DATA & ANALYTICS: Pushing the Limits of BigQuery" session at the Google Cloud Platform Global…
Are Research Ethics Obsolete In The Era Of Big Data?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the changing landscape of ethics in the big data world. Read the Full Article.