Author: Kalev Leetaru
HASTAC Blog
Two recent GDELT projects are featured on the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Blog today: Cultural…
ICG’s Lux Real-Time Streaming Analytics Platform Features GDELT Dashboard
Back in August we mentioned that Illumina Consulting Group’s LUX real-time streaming analytics platform features a watchboarding service based on…
Why Big Data Missed the Early Warning Signs of Ebola
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores the deeper story behind how "big data" missed the emerging Ebola outbreak…
M&E Tech: The Future of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Technology in Development
Kalev presented on a panel this afternoon at the M&E Tech conference titled "How to Leverage Big Data for Better…
Webinar to AidData
Kalev presented a webinar today to a group from AidData on GDELT and how its Global Knowledge Graph can be…
TechChange Feature on GDELT
Charles Martin Shields at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution wrote this great feature on the new…
Announcing the Africa and Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG)
We are incredibly excited to announce the debut of the Africa and Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG) special collection,…
Announcing the New Human Rights Global Knowledge Graph (HR-GKG)
So much of the world’s public knowledge of human rights issues across the world are locked in textual format, scattered…
Introducing GKG 2.0 – The Next Generation of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph
We are incredibly excited to announce the official release of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) Version 2.0. This marks…
The Tricky Business of Acting on Live Data Before It’s Too Late
GigaOM's Derrick Harris talks about the need for humans to actually monitor and take action on the results of "big…
BBVA Country Risk Quarterly Report Q3 2014
The research staff in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)'s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit (BBVA is the second-largest bank in Spain) produced some…
Early Warning for Epidemic Outbreaks: GDELT Offers the Earliest Warning of Ebola Outbreak
Last month Harvard’s HealthMap initiative garnered quite a bit of press for detecting early mentions of the current Ebola outbreak…
Insight on Conflict Feature on GDELT
Charles Martin Shields at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution wrote this great feature for Insight on…
GDELT at USAID's Second Annual Frontiers in Development
Kalev spoke on GDELT yesterday at USAID's Second Annual Frontiers in Development conference at the Ronald Reagan Building. Keynotes at…
GDELT at the PeaceTech Summit: Engineering Durable Peace (NAE / USIP)
Kalev spoke yesterday on GDELT, the use of “big data” to understand conflict, and his work with the United States Institute of…
Moscow Conference on Protest Data
Kalev presented on Friday on GDELT and the process and complexities of compiling global protest data to a conference on protest…
Exploration of GDELT Data for Stability Modeling
This past June we pointed out an article by researchers at the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States…
Kalev Named to World Economic Forum Future of Government Global Agenda Council
Back in July we announced that GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru had been named as a Council Member of the World Economic Forum's Global…
Cultural Computing at Literature Scale: Encoding the Cultural Knowledge of Tens of Billions of Words of Academic Literature
Representing the first large-scale content analysis of JSTOR, DTIC, or the Internet Archive ever performed, this latest GDELT collaboration, with Timothy Perkins…
Television Trends Tracker: Explore American Television News
We are incredibly excited to announce the latest GDELT media analysis tool that provides a range of sophisticated analyses of…
Mapping the Future of Mankind: Interview with Dataconomy
Kalev spoke recently with Eileen McNulty of dataconomy about how GDELT is reshaping our understanding of the world in an…
GDELT on a Sphere
Back in May we unveiled GDELT on the NOAA Science on a Sphere network, allowing you to visit one of the…
USIP Open Situation Room
The United States Institute of Peace Open Situation Room uses GDELT for its global situation maps. The Open Situation Room…
Playing Nostradamus: Foreign Policy
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy focuses on how "Big data show that history does indeed repeat itself. What does…