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BBVA Geo World Conflict & Social Unrest April 2015
This past September the research staff in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit (BBVA is the second-largest bank in Spain) produced…
Multilingual Source-Country Crossreferencing Dataset
In November of last year we released a crossreference dataset estimating the country of origin for all major English-language news outlets…
Mapping 24 Hours in the Life of GDELT
Felipe Hoffa, Developer Advocate on big data at Google, put together this fantastic tutorial creating a heatmap of a day in…
"Digital Jedis" Responding to Nepal
Patrick Meier wrote this great piece for PCDN titled "A Force for Good: How Digital Jedis are Responding to the…
Audio and Transcript of Chatham House Speech
An audio recording of Kalev's invited speech at Chatham House is now available below, click on the Audio tab directly…
IRIN News: Nepal Earthquake Coverage Bias
IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph to visually demonstrate the bias in international coverage of major natural disasters,…
IRIN News: Burundi News Tone
IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph tone variable to plot the average positive/negative "tone" of global news coverage…
Nepal Earthquake: Realtime Disaster Cataloging
As with Typhoon Ruby and Cyclone Pam, GDELT is once again collaborating with OCHA, STBF, MicroMappers, and QCRI, this time to…
Kalev Speaks at Chatham House
Kalev spoke on Friday at Chatham House in London on “Using Big Data to Understand Global Conflict”, exploring how GDELT is being…
Library of Congress Blog Post on Mass Translation
Kalev’s latest guest post for the Library of Congress’ The Signal blog is “Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World…
Why We Can't Just Read English Newspapers to Understand Terrorism
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how enormously English-centric and Western-centric our understanding of global conflict and terrorism…
Big Data For a More Resilient Future: World Bank
Kalev presented on GDELT today at the World Bank's "Big Data for a More Resilient Future" conference at the World…
CFR Tweets Kalev's Interview as "Staff Pick"
In October of last year, Kalev sat down with Vivian Schiller, formerly Chief Digital Officer of NBC News and Head of…
Announcing the GDELT Live Trends Dashboard
We are tremendously excited to announce today the official launch of the GDELT Live Trends Dashboard. Now when you visit…
Defense Science Board Briefing on GDELT
This past Tuesday Kalev gave an invited presentation to the US Defense Science Board on GDELT and the power of…
Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?
Patrick Tucker of Atlantic Media's Defense One has a new article out yesterday titled "Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?"…
Library of Congress Blog Post on a Decade of Exploring the Geography of Text
Kalev's latest guest post for the Library of Congress' The Signal blog is "Mapping Words: Lessons Learned From a Decade…
Disasters Live Stream Now Includes Raw GKG 2.0
Ever since we released the GDELT Live Stream for UN OCHA/ReliefWeb Disasters last month, we've gotten a lot of interest in…
Mapping a Month of BBC vs the New York Times
Following in the footsteps of our last post, Mapping a Week in the Life of the World's News Media, we…
Mapping A Week in the Life of the World's News Media
GDELT's ability to reach deeply into the geography of the world's local news media across 65 languages opens the door…
Kalev to Give Invited Talk At Chatham House
We are enormously honored to announce that Kalev will be giving an invited talk at Chatham House while in London later…
Kalev Named as Senior Fellow at George Washington University
We are tremendously excited to announce that Kalev has been named as a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Center for…
GDELT Live Visual News Map
We're excited to announce the debut today of the latest addition to the GDELT Live realtime global dashboard: the new Visual…
Seeing The World Through Mass Translation of Local News
Kalev's guest post for the Knight Blog titled "Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World Through Mass Translation of Local News"…