Author: Kalev Leetaru
Does More Data Really Lead To Better Decision Making?
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how simply having more data does not automatically lead to better decisions being made. Read…
Will AI And Robots Make Humans Obsolete?
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how AI and robotics are taking over human society. Read the Full Article.
Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the changing landscape of publishing in the digital era. Stanford University's Law Library even excerpted…
Are We All Turning Into Digital Zombies? Or Will AI Save Us?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how technology is turning us into digital zombies and how AI may pull us…
Could We Ever Have A Truly Free Internet?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores whether we could ever truly have a free Internet. Read the Full Article.
Why We Need More Domain Experts In The Data Sciences
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the dangerous gap between the producers and consumers of data sciences today and why…
Are Corporate Data Centers Obsolete In The Cloud Era?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how the commercial cloud has upended and revolutionized how computing is done. Read the…
WATSON, GDELT, Jigsaw etc
Tiffany Trofino, Principle Strategist at IBM, wrote recently on LinkedIn about the future of using data for understanding global conflict….
Here’s the data that told us Bernie Sanders would lose
Putting together data from the television tracker, Cloud Vision analysis of political imagery, and Jordan and Felipe's talk from Google…
Using Google's Deep Learning To Model Visual Portrayal In The News
With the debut of the GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG), which uses Google's Cloud Vision API deep learning algorithms to…
Bayesian Poisson Tucker Decomposition for Learning the Structure of International Relations
Researchers Aaron Schein (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mingyuan Zhou (University of Texas at Austin), David Blei (Columbia University) and Hanna Wallach…
NGramming 9.5 Billion Words of Arabic News
One of the amazing things that happens when you monitor the world at GDELT's scale is that you begin to…
Making NGrams At BigQuery Scale
Ever since 2010's Culturomics paper and with the rise of ever-more powerful linguistic modeling systems, ngrams have surged back into…
Naval Postgraduate School Thesis Uses GKG To Explore Terrorist "Brands"
A Naval Postgraduate School thesis by Bradley S. Greaver titled "Terrorist group brands: understanding terrorist group strategies through brand exposure" uses…
Google I/O 2016: Tracking The Election Through GDELT / Reddit / Wikipedia
In their lively and fast-paced Google I/O 2016 talk, Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani trace mainstream and social media coverage of…
Google I/O 2016: Election 2016 The Big Data Showdown
Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani offered a fantastic fast-paced look at Google BigQuery in their session at Google I/O 2016, showcasing how…
BBVA: EAGLEs Economic Outlook Annual Report 2016
BBVA's latest report, the EAGLEs Economic Outlook Annual Report 2016, has a wide array of quite fascinating sentiment and other analyses…
Paris, Georgia and Trump Fixes
We recently made three bug fixes to address two geographic issues and one person name extraction issue. Mapping the textual geography…
CuriousGnu: How The World Sees Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump
CuriousGnu used BigQuery put together a set of fantastic maps in CartoDB using GDELT to map the average tone of…
Opening Keynote Data Summit 2016
Kalev gave the opening keynote of the second day of Data Summit 2016 in New York City last week, speaking…
Mapping Global Bias In Facebook's Media List
Kalev's latest Forbes story "Is Facebook's Trending Topics Biased Against Africa And The Middle East?" includes a map of the…
Modeling Science, Technology & Innovation Conference At The National Academies
Kalev spoke yesterday at the Modeling Science, Technology & Innovation Conference held at the National Academies building here in DC. Read…
What Facebook's Media List Tells Us About Monitoring News Versus Monitoring Society
Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores how the media list that powers Facebook's Trending Topics module appears to have been constructed…
Do Smart Cities Pose Data Dangers? When Governments See Value In Data
Kalev's latest story for Forbes explores what happens as smart cities recognize the value of the data they hold and…