Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how creating an interactive map of three months of global news coverage about wildlife crime (30,000 articles in 65 languages) offers a fundamental new lens through which to understand its global patterns.
Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher?
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