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What Opinion Polls Teach Us About Data Versus Truth

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how all data has a huge number of assumptions built into it and why we…

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Charleston Library Opening Keynote

Kalev gave the opening keynote on Friday at the Charleston Conference in the stunning Gaillard Center performance hall in South Carolina, speaking…

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GDELT Featured In BigQuery + Excel Documentation Example

GDELT was used as an example in a tutorial on how to connect Bigquery to Excel on Google's Big Data…

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Connecting BigQuery To Microsoft Excel Using The New ODBC Driver

A new post by Tim Swast on the cloud big data and machine learning blog showcases a number of fascinating…

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World Affairs 2016: 70 Years

Kalev spoke at World Affairs' 70th annual event in San Franciso last week on the evolving world of cyberwarfare and especially…

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Has Social Media Killed Free Speech?

Kalev's latest piece explores how the centralization of the web into a handful of social media walled gardens sets a…

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The Dyn DDOS Attack And The Changing Balance Of Online Cyber Power

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the DDOS attack against Dyn in the context of how the evolving world of cyber…

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gdeltPyR

Linwood Creekmore created this neat Python-based framework that pulls GDELT 1.0 and 2.0 data into Python Pandas and R dataframes using…

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From Cellphone Tracking To Facial Recognition: Minority Report Is Here

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the burgeoning world of electronic surveillance. Read the Full Article.

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Julian Assange's Internet Access And How Facebook Could Be The End Of Wikileaks

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how as the web centralizes towards a handful of walled gardens, Facebook's central role in…

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The Hidden World Of News Imagery EXIF Metadata & iPhones As News Cameras

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores 48 hours of the GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG)'s new EXIF metadata extraction. Read the…

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Geographic FeatureID To Common Name Crosswalk

UPDATE: This dataset has been updated May 2018. In support of its global geocoding efforts, GDELT maintains gazetteers containing several…

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Mapping Sexual And Gendered Violence Across The World 2015-2016

Following the template laid out in our BigQuery+UDF One Minute Maps, today we unveil a map that offers a glimpse…

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VGKG 2.0 Metadata Stats At 2 Weeks

In the two weeks since the new Visual Knowledge Graph 2.0 (VGKG 2.0) debuted, it has been incredibly exciting to…

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Dodging The Memory Hole: Archiving Online News

Kalev presented today at "Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News" on the UCLA campus about GDELT's collaboration with…

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Geofeedia Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg: The Era Of Social Surveillence

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the evolving world of social media surveillence in the context of the ACLU/Geofeedia report. Read…

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VGKG 2.0 Released

We are incredibly excited to announce today the release of Version 2.0 of the GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG),…

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WorldAffairs 2016

Kalev will be speaking at WorldAffairs 2016 in San Francisco next month, joining an incredible cast of luminaries from across…

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2016 Charleston Library Conference

Kalev is giving a plenary address at the 2016 Charleston Library Conference in November titled "Reimagining Our World At Planetary Scale: The…

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Global Fishing Watch And How The Development Community Needs Tech Help

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the technology and development communities need to collaborate much more closely together. Read the…

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The Media Got It Wrong: What Facebook's Video Ads Issue Tells Us About Big Data Metrics

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the tech media got the story all wrong about Facebook's Video Ads metrics and…

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Could US Government Innovation Challenges Fund Cyberattacks On US Industry?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how US Government innovation challenges struggle with accountability and evaluation and allow for the funding…

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How Automated Curation And Chat Bots Could Restore The Human Touch To Online Commerce

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how chat bots and automated curation could vastly improve online shopping and what we've lost…

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Websearch University

Kalev spoke at Websearch University today to an audience of search professionals from the commercial, academic and governmental space on how…