This is a guest post by Andrew Halterman. Edit 17 Sept to reflect changes in dplyr‘s syntax GDELT is an incredible resource for researchers…

Foreign Policy ran a front-page story by Dana Stuster featuring the global and Egyptian protest maps created by John Beieler…

Kalev taught at the Lipari School on Computational Social Science in Italy from July 20 – July 27th, focusing on how…

Kalev presented on how "big data" is reshaping our ability to forecast future mass atrocities as part of the USAID…

Looking at the map of global protests in 2013 as captured in GDELT that John Beieler created, I was struck…

Kalev presented the opening keynote for the Center for Research Library's (CRL)'s Pioneers in Mining Electronic News for Research summit…

Kalev presented today to the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group.

Kalev was an invited discussant at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Economic Science Workshop.

CNBC television ran a segment on GDELT for its Big Data Download program titled "An Ambitious Project to Track Global…

Kalev spoke at TEDxUIUC on "What Can Big Data Do For You?" in how big data is reshaping every discipline.

Peter Aldhous of New Scientist Magazine put together this impressive interactive map of the Syrian civil war that breaks the…

Led by Matthew Connelly at Columbia University, the Declassification Engine project is a wide-ranging effort involving "historians, journalists, legal scholars,…

This collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory debuted the first-ever analysis of…

Kalev presented at the Stanford University / United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Blogs & Bullets Workshop on Syria.

The Guardian introduces GDELT as "the ultimate big database – and an amazing tool for data journalists" and extols its…

Jay Yonamine of Penn State used GDELT in his doctoral dissertation to explore how the spatial resolution of GDELT can…

Alex Hanna at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made this great timeline showing the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the various actor…

Foreign Policy magazine writes the first mainstream news article introducing GDELT to the world! Read the Full Article in Foreign…

David Masad of George Mason University put together this great tutorial demonstrating how to replicate some of Rolf Fredheim's R-based visualizations for…

Rolf Fredheim of Cambridge University put together a fantastic assortment of basic analyses and some sophisticated visualizations of GDELT, including…

Rolf Fredheim of Cambridge University created this visually stunning series of network displays of Russia's interactions with the world over…

The debut paper on GDELT was presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) meeting. Read the Full Paper.

Kalev's doctoral dissertation was successfully defended in March 2013 at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information…

Kalev gave an invited speech on "Using Big Data To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and…