Author: Kalev Leetaru
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…
Kalev to Present Opening Keynote at NFAIS
We are incredibly excited and honored to announce that Kalev will be presenting the opening keynote of the National Federation of…
AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting: Big Data & Human Rights: Video
Kalev spoke at the 2015 AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting titled “Big Data & Human Rights” on the GDELT…
Digital Memory VI: Estonian National Library
Kalev presented today at the Digital Memory VI international conference "Web Archiving: Preserving the History of Data-Driven Society" at the…
Timelines of Constitutional Discourse
GDELT isn't just about understanding global news – it is about understanding and contextualizing our global society. From academic literature…
ML-SENTICON's 5 Language Editions Now Available in GCAM
Over the last few weeks we've added the Spanish adaptation of ANEW and Hedonometer's Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian,…
Global Second Order Administrative Divisions Now Available From GAUL
Over the past year we've been hearing from more and more of you that you need to be able to…
GDELT and Google BigQuery: Understanding the World
Take a look at this incredible teaser video Google put together showcasing how GDELT makes use of the enormous power…
Paper Explores Change Point Detection and Multi-Level Analysis
Researchers Swetha Keertipati, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, and Martin Purvis, all of the University of Otago in Dunedin,…
Hedonometer's 12 Language Editions Now Available in GCAM
Just last week we announced the availability of the Spanish adaptation of ANEW in GCAM, marking our first foray into scoring the…
New York Times Feature on SMA Work
Today's edition of the New York Times features an article on research convened by the Department of Defense's Strategic Multilayer Assessment…
GigaOM Structure Data 2015 Speaker
Kalev will be joining an incredible list of speakers at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference in New York City March…
Typhoon Ruby: Realtime Aid Tracking Pilot with OCHA
In response to Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…
Exploring GDELT Using Tableau and BigQuery
The latest version of Tableau offers direct integration with Google BigQuery, meaning you can leverage Tableau's incredibly powerful point-and-click visual analytics…
BBVA Geo World Report: Second Half 2014
This past September the research staff in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit (BBVA is the second-largest bank in Spain) produced…
Library of Congress Blog On 500 Years of Book Images
Together with David Ayman Shamma, lead of the HCI Research Group at Yahoo! Labs and Scientific Liaison to Flickr, and…
Spanish Edition of ANEW Now Available in GCAM
We're tremendously excited to announce our first foray into scoring the emotional undercurrents of the non-English world. While it might…
AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting: Big Data & Human Rights
Kalev will be speaking at the 2015 AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting titled "Big Data & Human Rights"…
Pew Research Internet Project Report: The Future of Privacy
Kalev was one of the experts asked to provide his views on the future of the internet for Pew Research’s “Digital…
GigaOM Excerpts of Pew Internet Privacy Report
Kalev's responses for the Pew Research Center's Internet Project report on The Future of Privacy were included in GigaOM's summary of…
GDELT Cited in Patrick Meier's New Digital Humanitarians Book
Patrick Meier's new book, titled "Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response" tells "the compelling story of how…
A Global Big Data Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards CCS
Just shy of a decade since their first father-and-son study exploring global media coverage of carbon sequestration and climate change, Kalev and…