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Lipari School on Computational Social Science

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

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USAID Workshop on Early Warning about Mass Atrocities Against Civilians

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

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Visualizing Global GDELT Coverage

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

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CRL Opening Keynote: Pioneers in Mining Electronic News for Research

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

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World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group

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

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DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Economic Science Workshop

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

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CNBC's Big Data Download Show Features GDELT

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

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TEDxUIUC: What Can Big Data Do For You?

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

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New Scientist Magazine Maps the Syrian Civil War

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

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The Sphere of Influence and Declassification Engine Projects

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

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Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter

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

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Stanford University / USIP Blogs & Bullets Workshop on Syria

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

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GDELT: a big data history of life, the universe and everything

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

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Jay Yonamine's Forecasting Future Violence in Afghanistan

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

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Alex Hanna's Egyptian Timeline

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

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The Last 200 Million Things That Happened in the World

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

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David Masad's Python Visualizations

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

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Rolf Fredheim's Visualization Tutorial

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

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Rolf Fredheim's Russia Network Visualizations

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

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GDELT ISA Paper

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

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Dissertation: Can We Forecast Conflict?

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

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University of Texas at Austin iSchool Research Colloquium

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

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University of Maryland iSchool Research Colloquium

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

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Interview with Wired Magazine: Big Data and the Death of the Theorist

In December 2012 while in London, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke with Ian Steadman of Wired Magazine about the future…