Author: Kalev Leetaru
BBVA The Refugee Crisis: Challenges for Europe
The research staff at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit have produced a fascinating animated map of refugee…
BBVA Social Unrest Dynamics in Eurasian Countries
The research staff at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit have produced another series of captivating risk visuals, this…
Tracking the Islamic State — With Words
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how creating an interactive map of three months of global news coverage…
Scalable Bayesian Non-Negative Tensor Factorization
Researchers Changwei Hu, Piyush Rai, Changyou Chen, Matthew Harding, and Lawrence Carin, all of Duke University, explore extracting patterns at…
Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher?
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how creating an interactive map of three months of global news coverage about wildlife…
Advanced Mapping with the GDELT API + BigQuery
Today we feature the second half of the announcement of our incredible new collaboration with online mapping platform CartoDB to make…
A Discussion on Crisis Communications
Kalev will be speaking next week at an event at Blair House hosted by the Office of the Chief of…
Mapping Global Protests Redux
Two years ago Pennsylvania State University doctoral student John Beieler put together an animated map of global protests over the…
GDELT at National Defense University Senior Executive Seminar
Kalev spoke at the Countering Transnational Threats Senior Executive Seminar: "Understanding Perceptions and Countering Narratives" at National Defense University yesterday,…
Mapping ISIS: Three Month Cumulative Animation
To complement our interactive clickable map of the last three months of global media narrative around ISIS, we've created the…
Mapping ISIS: Three Months of Global ISIS Narrative
In the latest addition to our map series using CartoDB, we plot all worldwide news coverage monitored by GDELT 2.0 from…
Making Maps with GDELT + CartoDB: A New Collaboration
Today we are enormously excited to announce an incredible new collaboration with online mapping platform CartoDB to literally make the world's…
Mining Libraries: 20 Years of Massive Computing on the World's Information
The forthcoming 2015 issue of the journal Information Services & Use features two pieces by Kalev. The first is an in-the-trenches…
Making Of: Mapping Three Months of Poaching, Drones, and Cyber
Despite being up less than 12 hours, we've already been getting some great feedback on our latest map series, which…
Mapping Cyber: Three Months of Global Discussion of Cyberattacks
In the latest addition to our map series using CartoDB, we plot all worldwide news coverage monitored by GDELT 2.0 from…
Mapping Drones: Three Months of Global Discussion of Drones
In the latest addition to our map series using CartoDB, we plot all worldwide news coverage monitored by GDELT 2.0 from…
Mapping Poaching: Three Months of Wildlife Crime
In the latest addition to our map series using CartoDB, we plot all worldwide news coverage monitored by GDELT 2.0 from…
Simon Rogers Tweets News Co-occur Globe
Simon Rogers, formerly Data Editor at Twitter and founder of the Guardian's Datablog, and now Data Editor at Google, tweeted…
GDELT Makes Cameo Appearance at Google I/O Afterparty
GDELT made a cameo appearance on one of the big screens at the Google I/O afterparty last week through a clip from…
Mapping Media Geographic Networks: The News Co-occurrence Globe
Today we’re tremendously excited to unveil a long-awaited visualization that explores how the world’s news media groups countries into distinct…
Tutorial: Instant News Maps Using CartoDB + GKG API
A week and a half ago we unveiled a tutorial on mapping GDELT in CartoDB using our GKG GeoJSON files….
Embed This Map!
Earlier today we debuted the new GDELT Geographic News Search service, which allows you to interactively map the people, organizations, GDELT Themes,…
Exploring the 2016 US Presidential Campaign Through GDELT
A number of you have asked how GDELT might be used to explore the narrative of a presidential election campaign,…
Announcing GDELT Geographic News Search!
We are enormously excited today to announce the formal unveiling of GDELT Geographic News Search! The Geographic News Search service allows…