Author: Kalev Leetaru
US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series Presentation
Kalev presented today as part of the US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series on "GDELT 2.0: Understanding the Global World…
Announcing the GDELT Live Realtime Global Dashboard
We are enormously excited to announce today the official launch of the GDELT Live realtime global dashboard! With the release of…
GDELT Reaches 300 Million Events
This past Monday, GDELT reached an incredible milestone: the GDELT Event dataset surpassed 300 million events mentioned 2.5 billion times…
Neural Networks for Realtime Image Recognition of Disaster Coverage
With the debut of GDELT 2.0, GDELT now monitors the world’s news media, including small local, citizen, and regional media outlets…
Cyclone Pam: Realtime Disaster Cataloging
This past December in response to Typhoon Ruby, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…
Medium Post On GDELT
John Wittenauer wrote this fantastic piece about GDELT which includes some wonderful quotes like "there are times when I’m reminded just…
IA GigaOM Archive Mentioned at SXSW
As we previously noted, Kalev was originally scheduled to speak at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference this week, along with…
Understanding Global Conflict And Disasters Through BigQuery: Advanced Examples
BigQuery makes it possible to explore data at scales limited really only by your imagination and to help get you…
Kalev Speaking at GigaOM Structure Data 2015
We're incredibly honored that Kalev will be joining an incredible list of speakers at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference later this…
GDELT Live Stream For UN OCHA/ReliefWeb Disasters
This past December in response to Typhoon Ruby, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…
Telling the Story of Falling Oil Prices Through GDELT
Ali Rebaie put together this exploration of network and narrative changes around the fall of oil prices using GDELT. Read the…
Google BigQuery + GKG 2.0: Sample Queries
Making the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph available in Google BigQuery has been one of the most-requested features since the debut…
World Bank Group Topical Taxonomy Now in GKG
We're excited to announce today that with the support of the World Bank Group we have incorporated the entire World…
NFAIS Opening Keynote
Kalev presented the opening keynote today at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Annual Conference. His keynote, titled “The User…
QCRI Study: News Geography and Major Determinants of News Coverage
Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An of the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) put together this fantastic paper titled "Understanding News…
Announcing GDELT’s New “Tools for Journalists” Initiative
UPDATE 5/23/2015: In discussion with all of the users of this program, we've found that all of you have now migrated…
GigaOM Covers GDELT 2.0
Derrick Harris of GigaOM wrote this fantastic article about the debut of GDELT 2.0 and GDELT Translingual! For those attending GigaOM…
GDELT 2.0: Our Global World in Realtime
We are enormously excited to announce today the unveiling of the future of GDELT. GDELT 2.0 debuts what we believe…
GDELT Translingual: Translating the Planet
With the debut of GDELT 2.0 we are incredibly excited and proud to announce the public debut of a system…
GDELT+BigQuery: Understanding the World with SQL
Check out this amazing video created by Felipe Hoffa, Developer Advocate on big data at Google, that showcases how GDELT is…
Creating Your Own GDELT Dashboard Map With CartoDB
Imagine a map that uses computers to “read” news reports from across the entire world each day, identifying the events…
Bavarian Broadcasting Science Episode Features GDELT
Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting – BR) features GDELT on their science episode this week. The section on GDELT (with German…
Automatic Source Location Contextualization for Geocoding Local News
As we gear up for the imminent debut of GDELT 2.0, we are tremendously excited to announce a transformative new…
NDIA 2015 Human Systems Conference
Kalev and Chris Rewerts from the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) will be presenting at the National Defense…