Author: Kalev Leetaru
IRIN News Features GDELT Map
IRIN News featured yesterday's animated map of the geography of its last three months of coverage in today's DataViz section!…
Mapping Three Months of IRIN's Coverage
In a similar vein to our past maps of A Week in the Life of the World's News Media and A…
Creating a Customized Global GKG GeoJSON Feed
After posting about the new GDELT GKG Global GeoJSON files, we heard from quite a number of you that you were…
Visualizing the Linguistic Geography of the World's News
There's an old adage in journalism that "all news is local" – meaning that reporters filter and narrate the news to…
Visualization and Model Explores Insurgent Dynamics
Denes Csala created this really neat visualization of GDELT by country from 1979 to present for each country, overlaying key…
Paper Explores Locally Adaptive Dynamic Networks
Researchers Daniele Durante (University of Padova), Xi Yang (Duke University), and David B. Dunson (Duke University) explore network inference using…
Announcing Our First API: GKG GeoJSON!
Today we're incredibly excited to announce the official debut of our new GDELT API suite, with our very first API…
Data Skeptics New York Meetup
Kalev presented this evening to the Data Skeptics New York Meetup on GDELT, quantitative "big data" analysis of global conflict,…
Presentation to USASOC Futures Forum
Kalev presented today to the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Futures Forum based at Fort Bragg, focusing on GDELT and…
Metro Features New GDELT Maps
The Metro's Harry Readhead featured three of the new GDELT maps in today's edition! See the Full Article.
BBVA MENA May 2015 Report
The research staff at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit have produced another series of captivating risk visuals, this…
Washington Post Features New GDELT Maps
The Washington Post's Adam Taylor featured several of the new GDELT maps in today's issue of the Washington Post! Read the…
Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial – Part 2
The first part of this tutorial walked through the process of creating maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON…
Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial
This tutorial describes how to create your first maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON feeds. NOTE – this…
Mapping Protest, Unrest, and Cyber Narratives
The fifth in our series of geographic visualizations explores the geography of discussion of protests (orange), cyber (purple) and unrest…
Mapping General Discrimination and LGBT Discourse
The fourth in our series of geographic visualizations explores the geography of LGBT-related discussion (blue) and discrimination (orange) over the…
GDELT GKG GeoJSON Files Available
For those who want to create their own interactive GDELT maps in CartoDB like the three we've unveiled thus far…
Mapping Food/Water Security, Transportation, and Health/Disease
As the third map in our new series of geographic visualizations of GDELT, we're excited to unveil a topical map…
Mapping the World's Happiest and Saddest News in Realtime
Today we're incredibly excited to unveil the second of two maps showcasing the enormous power of the spatial information captured…
An Interactive Realtime Map of the World's News
Today we're incredibly excited to unveil an interactive realtime map of the world's news, updated every hour, as seen through the…
USASOC Futures Forum Presentation
Kalev will be presenting on GDELT at next week's United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Futures Forum.
Slate French Translates Two GDELT Articles on Language
The French language edition of Slate translated two of Kalev's recent Foreign Policy columns on GDELT and the critical importance…
Ben Parker: Bots Reading The News
Ben Parker of IRIN News posted this tweet examining the top themes identified by GDELT in global coverage of Burundi…
Kalev to Present Closing Keynote at Data Summit
Kalev will be giving the closing keynote at Data Summit in New York City running May 11-13, 2015. Learn More.