Author: Kalev Leetaru
Address at UN ESCAP Big Data And Sustainable Development Meeting
Kalev gave the morning opening address on the second day of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia…
Data Mining Global News For Economic Uncertainty
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores economic uncertainty and economic policy uncertainty through the eyes of GDELT 2.0, totaling more…
A Simple Narrative Measure Of Economic Uncertainty And Economic Policy Uncertainty
Economic stability and uncertainty plays a critical role in the overall stability and well-being of a nation. Scholars like Alexopoulos &…
How Trump's Attacks On Muslims Brought Him More Media Coverage Than Ever
Kalev's latest analysis for the Washington Post explores how Donald Trump's latest attacks on Muslims have broken his six week lull…
A Glimpse At Burundi Through The Stability API
This past Friday Burundi once again erupted into violence with 87 people killed in attacks on three military installations. Below…
When Toys Are Hackable And Our Children Become Data Breach Victims
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the new realm of Internet-connected toys and the privacy and cybersecurity implications of the…
When The Internet Turned Us All Into Online Addicts
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how the design of online services, changing social norms, and even new fields like…
Inter-American Development Bank Opening Address
Kalev gave the opening address for the Inter-American Development Bank's summit titled "Financial Solutions With Large Datasets: "Big Data" Methods,…
Mother Jones Features Candidate Television Tracker
Mother Jones recently used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, to comment on…
GeoDC December Meetup
Kalev presented Wednesday night to the GeoDC December Meetup, alongside Matt McNabb of FirstMileGeo and Jubal Harpster of SpatialDev to…
Triaging Disaster Imagery: Cyclone Pam & Vanuatu
Since Typhoon Ruby last December, GDELT has provided a special live filtered stream of global news coverage of all natural…
Exploring The Threads Of Visual Narrative
In the aftermath of any major event, from a sudden terror attack to an annual global conference, the world's news…
Emotions From Images: Sentiment Mining The World's News Imagery
One of the incredibly exciting features of the new Google Cloud Vision API is its ability to detect and categorize the…
A Vision Of The Future: GDELT + Google Cloud Vision API
The past year has been an incredible year for GDELT. With the public release of GDELT 2.0, we now monitor…
Using the GDELT Stability and Word Cloud APIs to Understand The Lake Chad Attacks
Earlier today three suicide bombers attacked three different areas on the island of Koulfoua in Lake Chad, killing at least 27…
Announcing the GDELT Thematic Word Cloud Dashboard API
We're tremendously excited to announce the latest in our rapidly growing suite of GDELT API's: the GDELT Thematic Wordcloud Dashboard API. This…
Showing Refugees Some Love
This neat visualization by Kenneth Davis over at geovisualist.com uses the GDELT GeoJSON API and CartoDB to map positive coverage of…
A Compilation Of GDELT BigQuery Demos
With the debut of GDELT 2.0 earlier this year and the general availability of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) in…
O'Reilly Ideas: Analyzing The World's News
Kalev and Felipe wrote an article for O'Reilly Ideas titled "Analyzing the world’s news: Exploring the GDELT Project through Google…
O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World Singapore Next Week
Kalev and Felipe Hoffa of Google will be presenting at the O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World conference in Singapore next week. If you're…
Google Developer Experts Summit 2015
Last week Kalev was at Google's Mountain View campus for the Google Developer Experts Summit, as one of its Cloud…
Why It's So Important To Understand What's In Our Web Archives
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes continues his exploration of web archives and why it is so important to understand what…
A Practical Guide To The Encryption Debate: A Failure Of Analysis Not Encryption
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the encryption debate through historical and pragmatic lenses, examining just what options are truly…
Terascale Sentiment Analysis: BigQuery + Tone Coding Books
As we continue to add new sentiment dictionaries to GDELT on a regular basis, a common request has been the ability…