Author: Kalev Leetaru
Big Data Analytics 2012 in London
In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to London to speak at Big Data Analytics 2012, the United Kingdom's…
United Kingdom Science & Technology Facilities Council Big Data Conference
In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Daresbury in the United Kingdom to present at the joint SGI…
UCI Evoke Laboratory Presentation
Kalev gave an invited presentation on "Using Big Data to Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting…
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
In November 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru was selected to participate in the 2012 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, The…
Mapping the Civil War Through HathiTrust's One Billion Pages of Books
In a collaboration with noted Civil War historian Vernon Burton, Kalev mapped the geography of the Civil War discourse through…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: Making Of
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: US Presidential Election
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: Hurricane Sandy
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: PufferSphere
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
2012 Winner of HPCWire Editor's Choice Edge HPC Award
Kalev's 2012 collaboration with supercomputer manufacturer SGI to create the first geographic historical visualization of Wikipedia's view of the world…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory Kalev debuted the first-ever realtime…
ICCM Talk at World Bank on Realtime Automated Risk Forecasting
In October 2012, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Washington DC to speak at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers…
IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012
Kalev presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on eScience, "Towards HPC for the Digital Humanities, Arts, and Social…
Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia
The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given…
CyberGIS Approach to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Kalev and Eric Shook gave the featured Showcase Presentation at The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS, titled "A CyberGIS Approach…
Spatial Media Analysis for Remote Assessment
This study, with Charles Ehlschlaeger, Jeffrey Burkhalter and Marina Drigo, was presented at The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS….
Wikipedia Study Showcased on NOAA Science on a Sphere
The World According to Wikipedia, a collaboration with SGI and their new UV2 supercomputer to visualize Wikipedia's view of world…
Global OSINT Monitoring for Fragility Warning
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) developed during World War II and the Cold War as a surrogate for leadership analysis, created…
The World According to Wikipedia: Intensity
SGI's new UV2 supercomputer, scalable to 64TB of RAM, was used to visualize world history 1800-2012 captured by Wikipedia. More…
The World According to Wikipedia: Tone
SGI's new UV2 supercomputer, scalable to 64TB of RAM, was used to visualize world history 1800-2012 captured by Wikipedia. More…
Behind The Scenes: The Making of the SGI Wikipedia Project
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the SGI Wikipedia project and learn more about how the world's largest shared-memory exploration supercomputer…
Wikipedia Study Showcases SGI UV2 Launch
In collaboration with SGI, the new UV2 supercomputer, which scales to 4,000 cores and 64TB in a single system image,…
Columbia University: Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Digital Scholarship Workshop
Kalev presented "The Science of Forecasting Unrest Through Modeling Population-Scale Emotional Responses" at the Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Digital Scholarship Workshop…
IIPC Opening Address Keynote on the Future of Web Archives at the Library of Congress
Kalev gave the keynote address opening the 2012 General Assembly of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) at the Library…