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PeaceTech Summit 2016: All they are saying is give peace tech a chance

GDELT was well-represented at the US Institute of Peace's PeaceTech Summit 2016, making a number of appearances in sessions and…

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The Datasets Of GDELT As Of February 2016

What would it look like to use massive computing power to see the world through others’ eyes, to break down…

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Structure Data 2016 Recap: A "Legendary" Talk

In his recap of Structure Data 2016, Structure Events Executive Editor Tom Krazit specifically cited Kalev's GDELT presentation: Kalev Leetaru of GDELT…

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Salon Features Candidate Television Tracker: Trump Mania

Eric Boehlert writes for Salon about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's…

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News 4 San Antonio Features Candidate Television Tracker

Amanda Ota reports for News4 San Antonio about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet…

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Independent Journal Review Features Candidate Tracker

Frank Camp writes for the Independent Journal Review about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet…

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Announcing The GDELT 2.0 Release Of The Africa And Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG)

Today we are enormously excited to announce the GDELT 2.0 release of the Africa And Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG)…

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SXSW 2016: Fighting Wildlife Crime With Tech Innovation

As one of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Prize Winners, GDELT will be featured in the "Fighting Wildlife Crime With…

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Cyberinfrastructure For Network Science Center

Kalev will be visiting the Cyberinfrastructure For Network Science Center at Indiana University on March 21st to talk about "Quantifying, Visualizing,…

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Using Google's Deep Learning AI To Geolocate Global News Imagery

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores what it looks like to apply Google's Cloud Vision API deep learning neural network…

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Mapping Global News Imagery Via Google Cloud Vision API

To showcase the power of the new Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG), which reached 19.6 million images as of March 1st,…

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Why The Apple Versus FBI Debate Matters In A Globalized World

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the Apple versus FBI debate in the context of the globalized world in which…

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Wired Features Candidate Television Tracker

Wired used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, this afternoon to chart…

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Rassd News Network (RNN) Features Candidate Television Tracker

Khaled Omar writes for the Rassd News Network about Donald Trump, commenting on Mohammed Minshawi's earlier article, and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which…

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Shorouk News Features Candidate Television Tracker: Donald Trump

Mohammed Minshawi writes for Shorouk News, a prominent Arabic language newspaper published in Egypt, about Donald Trump and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate…

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Structure Data: How GDELT Is Cataloging And Analyzing The Entire Planet

Kalev wrote a guest post for Structure Data previewing the major themes he will be hitting upon in his talk…

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Arizona State University: What It Looks Like To Compute On The Entire Planet

Kalev will be visiting Arizona State University March 15th to talk about "'Big Data': What It Looks Like To Compute On…

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US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series Presentation 2016

Kalev presented today as part of the US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series, providing an update on GDELT's massive progress…

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What It Looks Like To Process 3.5 Million Books In Google’s Cloud

GDELT's processing of the complete 1800-2015 English-language public domain digitized books collections from the Internet Archive and HathiTrust (totaling 3.5…

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Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa

Researchers Macro Manacorda and Andrea Tesei of Queen Mary University of London and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the…

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The Death Of Internet Freedom: Mourning The Demise Of A 20-Year-Old Dream

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how the modern Internet has grown steadily less free and more constrained and censored…

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Does Social Media Actually Reflect Reality?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the degree to which social media reflects reality and the implications of this for…

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What Hope Is There For Cybersecurity If The Government Can't Protect Its Own Secrets?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the dismal state of US Government cybersecurity, musing on its implications for the private…

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Data Sharing And Replication In The Sciences

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the state of data sharing and replication in the sciences and why open data…