Author: Kalev Leetaru
Wolfram Data Summit 2015: Planetary Scale Computing
Kalev will be speaking at the 2015 Wolfram Data Summit, presenting "Quantifying, Visualizing, and Forecasting Global Human Society: What it…
Hellenic Public Radio Cosmos
Kalev was interviewed today on Hellenic Public Radio Cosmos FM 91.5 FM WNYE about the findings of his latest Foreign…
A New Way to Read the Crisis in Greece
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how Google Trends and news analytics offer a fundamentally new look into global…
Mapping Libraries: Creating Real-time Maps of Global Information
Kalev's latest guest post for the Library of Congress' The Signal blog is "Mapping Libraries: Creating Real-time Maps of Global Information",…
Storybase: Towards Building a Knowledge Base for News Events
Zhaohui Wu of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Chen Liang and C. Lee Giles of the Department…
Towards a Generalized Model of Media Fatigue: Vanuatu & Nepal
The results of our collaboration with IRIN to explore the effects of media fatigue in coverage of the April 24th,…
IRIN News: The Nepal Earthquake at Three Months: Media Fatigue and Bias
In collaboration with IRIN News, on the three-month anniversary of the Nepal Earthquake, we wanted to explore what it looks like…
IRIN News: Hissene Habre
IRIN News used GDELT to explore the focus of reporting about Former Chadian President Hissene Habre from 1979 through present, finding that…
Online Activists Fight ISIS
A new article published by the Sinclair Broadcast Group last night delves into more detail on the online fight against…
Tracking Memes & Virality on Television: SOTU 2015
In collaboration with the Internet Archive, using massive audio scanning algorithms, the 2015 State of the Union address was broken…
Money & Politics on Television: Philadelphia 2014 Campaigns
In collaboration with the Internet Archive, human coding and machine tracking was used to identify all 74 political ads that ran on…
Mapping the Geographic Networks of Global Refugee Flows
Today we unveil a visualization of global refugee flows as seen through the eyes of the world's press. More precisely,…
IRIN News: Burundi Update July 2015
IRIN News used GDELT to explore how total news coverage volume and average emotional tone of Burundi has evolved over the…
GDELT Mentioned in New Routledge Book
GDELT is mentioned in a chapter in the new book "Digital Technology and the Future of Broadcasting: Global Perspectives", edited…
International Labour Organization WESO Trends 2015
The International Labour Organization's annual World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015 report features on page 30 a visualization…
Mapping Greece Through the Eyes of the World
Today we unveil a map of the unfolding Greek crisis as seen through the eyes of the world's news media…
A Network Diagram of Greece July 1-15
Using the sample GKG 2.0 BigQuery network query, the following visualization shows the network of the top 1,500 connections among…
How to Really Counter the Islamic State's Messaging
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy focuses on how to rethink our approach to counter-messaging the Islamic State, offering a…
A Montage of 500 Years of the Imagery of Books
Its been just under a year since GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru collaborated with the Internet Archive and Flickr to extract the images…
Linguistic Geography: Mapping the Languages of GDELT February-July 2015
We're excited to unveil a new visualization that showcases the power of GDELT's realtime machine translation of the world's local news…
Mapping the Geography of GDELT: February-July 2015
We're excited to unveil a new visualization that showcases the incredible reach of GDELT 2.0. The map below displays a…
Wildlife Crime Map Featured in National Geographic Article
The interactive map of global wildlife crime discussed in last month's Foreign Policy article titled "Can You Use Big Data to…
CrisisLex Taxonomies Now Available in GKG
The CrisisLex.org initiative offers a variety of datasets and tools relating to the use of social media for crisis and…
IRIN News: Burundi Topical Network
IRIN News has published two previous pieces using GDELT to explore trends relating to the overall emotional tenor of global news…