Author: Kalev Leetaru
Presenting on Big Data and GDELT Again at the Wharton School
Kalev was at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for a second time this past Thursday to speak about GDELT and…
Data Tactics: Statistical Programming DC Meetup
Amanda Traud, PhD, Data Scientist at L-3 Data Tactics, who wrote these two fantastic guest blog posts, GDELT-Board and GDELT Country Network…
Data Tactics: Network Analysis App: A GDELT Case Study
This guest post is by Amanda Traud, PhD, Data Scientist at L-3 Data Tactics. With the rise in social media sites, the…
Data Tactics: GDELT-Board and GDELT Country Network Dashboard
This guest post is by Amanda Traud, PhD, Data Scientist at L-3 Data Tactics. The news media holds a prominent place…
Lux Ebola GDELT+Shipping Maritime Pilot
Lux put together this brief pilot analysis of using their platform to combine GDELT's ebola and conflict tracking data with…
InformationWeek Healthcare Article
Kalev is quoted in a recent InformationWeek Healthcare article on data mining and the Ebola outbreak. View the Full Article.
UN Foundation / Data2X Report on Big Data For Development
Kalev's 2011 Culturomics 2.0 paper is mentioned in the latest report from the United Nations Foundation and Data2X titled "The Landscape of Big…
Presenting on Big Data and GDELT at the Wharton School
Kalev was at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania yesterday to speak about GDELT and how big data…
Video From Wolfram Data Summit 2014 Online
Kalev's speech at the 2014 Wolfram Data Summit, titled "What It Takes to Compute on the Whole World" is now…
Visualizing the Emotions of American Television News
Today we announce the release of an incredibly exciting new dataset: all 540,000 hours of English-language news broadcasts monitored by…
GDELT at Latin American Journalism Summit
GDELT made an appearance at the Latin American Journalism Summit (Cumbre Latinoamericana de Periodismo) today as a journalistic tool for…
Presentation at the United Nations
Kalev spoke on Friday at the United Nations on how GDELT is reshaping our ability to understand global society and…
Leader Speeches: Assad vs American Presidents
Ever since the unveiling of the GKG 2.0 file format last month, we've been inundated with requests to expand GDELT…
World Bank: Can the Internet Solve Conflict?
The World Bank published this article yesterday titled "Can the Internet Solve Conflict" that discusses GDELT's role in cataloging the…
Introducing the Global Content Analysis Measures (GCAM)
Today we mark a truly transformative moment in the history of GDELT. From its public debut a year and a…
GDELT Appears in Poland's WPROST
Just a month shy of three years since he appeared onstage in Warsaw, Kalev is making an appearance in Poland once…
History Channel Documentary
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru is being filmed for an incredibly exciting new documentary to be aired on the History Channel/H2!…
GDELT in Romanian Big Data Meetup
The Big Data / Data Science Meetup in Cluj-Napoca, Romania recently held a workshop titled "How to think in MapReduce"…
Council on Foreign Relations Voices of the Next Generation
Kalev will be speaking later this month at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as part of its Voices of…
Reimagining Libraries as Conveners of Information and Innovation
Kalev's guest post for the Knight Blog titled "Reimagining Libraries as Conveners of Information and Innovation" explores his collaborations over…
USIP: Entrepreneurs Hunt for 'Peace Tech' to Defuse Conflict
GDELT and Kalev's presentation at the US Institute of Peace / National Academy of Engineering PeaceTech Summit is featured in the…
HASTAC Blog
Two recent GDELT projects are featured on the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Blog today: Cultural…
ICG’s Lux Real-Time Streaming Analytics Platform Features GDELT Dashboard
Back in August we mentioned that Illumina Consulting Group’s LUX real-time streaming analytics platform features a watchboarding service based on…
Why Big Data Missed the Early Warning Signs of Ebola
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores the deeper story behind how "big data" missed the emerging Ebola outbreak…