Author: Kalev Leetaru
Why 2016 Will Not Be The Year Of Virtual Reality
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the evolving landscape of virtual reality, drawing from his in-the-trenches experiences working in the…
Inside The Big Data World Of Campaign 2016
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the big data world of Campaign 2016, from data breaches to psychological profiling and voter…
Announcing The New GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG)
We’re enormously excited to announce today a transformative moment for GDELT: the alpha release of a highly experimental, but extraordinarily…
48 Hours Of Pollution And Littering Around The World Through Deep Learning
We've only just begun to explore the incredible potential in using the Google Cloud Vision API to catalog the world's news…
Deep Learning Triaging For Disaster Response
One of the early GDELT APIs we created was a special live stream of all coverage worldwide that GDELT monitors…
Deep Learning Image Identification To Counter Poaching
One of the most powerful aspects of "deep learning" (neural network) image recognition is its ability to identify particular species…
Wonkblog: CNN Loves Donald Trump, Fox Loves Hillary Clinton
Jim Tankersley at the Washington Post's Wonkblog used our live television tracker collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive…
Image-Based Georeferencing: Recognizing Locations From Images
Having processed over 200,000 images from across the world's news media over the last two days as we ramp up…
History Channel Documentary Features GDELT
We're incredibly excited to finally unveil the History Channel documentary featuring GDELT, which debuted to the world last night on…
Trump's Television Coverage And The Week In Fact Checking
Our collaboration with The Atlantic and The Internet Archive's Television News Archive to track all mentions of the various 2016…
Why The Appearance Of Robots Makes Us Fear Them
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the role of design in robotics and our perception of them. Read the Full Article.
Does the US Really Want a North Korean Internet?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the remarkable similarities between the North Korean and Chinese internet models and those being promoted…
Announcing The GDELT Multilingual News Search Service
To demonstrate the incredible power of the new GDELT Full Text Search API, we've put together a simple news search…
GDELT Featured In BigQuery Documentation Example
We're excited that GDELT was used as an example dataset to illustrate the new BigQuery Query Plan Explanation feature! See the Documentation.
Tracking The Nigeria Gas Plant Explosion Through the Full Text Search API
To demonstrate how the new GDELT Full Text Search API can be used to track and understand rapidly-evolving breaking situations, the…
Announcing The GDELT Full Text Search API
We are extraordinarily excited to announce today the public unveiling of what has been perhaps the most requested feature of 2015: the…
Geo MENA Report December 2015
BBVA's latest global risk report focuses on the MENA region: "The geopolitical hot spots continue on the fore in the…
What Each Country Of The World Is Saying About Donald Trump
Kalev's latest piece for the Washington Post explores more than 700,000 articles in 65 languages to create a map of…
IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis Uses GDELT
IBM's i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis platform uses GDELT as a primary source for global alerts and trends relating to cyber…
Here’s What The Rest Of The World Is Saying About Donald Trump
Kalev's latest piece for the Washington Post maps global discussion and reaction to Donald Trump's ascendance as the GOP frontrunner….
Social Unrest Dynamics And China Slowdown Concerns And Contagion
BBVA recently published a short brief that included two visualizations based on GDELT, one modeling social unrest dynamics vis-a-vis contagion…
When Software Was Free And Data Was Gold: The Deep Learning Revolution
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how the emerging world of deep learning is upending the traditional value proposition of…
Encryption And Censorship In A Globalized World
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the landscape of encryption and censorship in our globalized world and how differing perspectives and…
Data Mining News To Map Global Inequality
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes maps global news coverage of inequality in all its forms, examining how the narrative surrounding…