Author: Kalev Leetaru
Wired Opinion Piece on the Future of Sentiment Mining
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru recently wrote an opinion piece for Wired on the state of sentiment mining, where it is…
New GDELT Website Debuts!
We're incredibly excited to unveil the beautiful new GDELT Project website to you! The new site does a vastly…
Bloomberg Covers GDELT in "Saving the World"
GDELT gets a prominent mention in a special Bloomberg feature on big data titled "Saving the World? How Big Data…
GDELT: World's largest event dataset now publicly available in Google BigQuery
We are phenomenally excited to announce that the entire quarter-billion-record GDELT Event Database is now available as a public dataset…
Computing on the Entire Planet From the Cloud: GDELT Moves to Google Cloud Platform
We are incredibly excited to announce a transformative new chapter in GDELT’s evolution – its move to Google Cloud Platform…
GDELT Now in a Museum Near You via NOAA’s Science on a Sphere!
Imagine an actual physical 6-foot-diameter globe floating before your very eyes, displaying every imaginable dataset about our planet. Created by…
Did the Arab Spring Really Spark a Wave of Global Protests?
Kalev's latest Foreign Policy columns explores global protest activity over the last 35 years, finding that the Arab Spring touched…
Kalev Speaks at Inaugural Wharton DC Innovation Summit
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke at the inaugural Wharton DC Innovation Summit here in Washington on how big data is…
Could we predict the kidnapping of Nigerian girls?
This article by Harvard NTL, which ran the USAID / Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention, discusses how the…
Refocusing Intelligence on Analysis
Kalev's latest Foreign Policy column discusses the need to refocus the intelligence process on analysis rather than collection – how…
Kalev Speaks at National Defense University Forum
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke at National Defense University today at a forum organized by the Center for Technology and…
FiveThirtyEight Explores Nigerian Kidnapping Trends Using GDELT
Mona Chalabi over at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight wrote this great timeline analysis of kidnappings in Nigeria using GDELT: Read the…
US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series
Kalev presented as part of the US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series on "A Realtime “Big Data” View of…
GDELT Cited In Gentzkow Interview
Clark Medal winner Matthew Gentzkow cites GDELT in his interview out today with Nieman Lab. Read the Full Interview.
Kalev Speaks at Data Community DC
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke to a packed house at Data Community DC's April meeting on his lessons learned from…
Georgetown University Feature – The Wizard of Big Data
Georgetown University profiled GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru in a special interactive feature titled "The Wizard of Big Data." Read the…
GDELT At GEOINT 2014 on GEOINT Foreword Panel
We were incredibly honored to present an overview of GDELT today on the GEOINT Foreward Panel on Human Geography at GEOINT…
Paper Explores Bilateral and Multilateral Causal Events in GDELT
Researchers at Tapjoy and the University of Virginia Department of Sociology used GDELT for their SBP data challenge paper "Discovering Bilateral…
SBP 2014 Grand Data Challenge Winner
Its always incredibly exciting to see all of the different ways that GDELT is being applied and it is especially…
From Big Data to Global Diplomacy: Today and Tomorrow
Today Kalev's Yahoo! Conference was held Georgetown University, titled "From Big Data to Global Diplomacy: Today and Tomorrow" and featuring presentations…
Working with GDELT in Python: A Quick Tutorial
Python has become an increasingly popular language for rapidly working with large datasets. James Houghton has a great quick tutorial…
Wall Street Journal Discussion of Twitter Geolocation
GDELT Creator Kalev Leetaru is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing the geolocation "arms race" and the emerging focus on the…
TimeMapper: Rwanda
With today being the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, we've received a number of requests for visualizations and…
Understanding Megacities
Megacities will play an outsized role in global politics and national stability over the coming decades with some estimates suggesting…