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Mapping The Global Spread Of Antitank And MANPADS Weapons Through News Mining
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes uses GDELT to map global discussion of antitank and MANPADS weapons over the course of…
Tableau Iron Viz Championship 2015
We are tremendously excited that GDELT was the featured dataset at the Tableau 2015 Iron Viz Championship held at the MGM Grand…
Internet Archive Library Leaders Forum 2015
Kalev spoke at the evening event opening the Internet Archive's Library Leaders Forum 2015, offering a whirlwind 10 minute journey through…
Announcing the GDELT Stability Dashboard API: Stability Timeline
We're tremendously excited today to announce the new GDELT Stability Dashboard API! This new API service, created through the support of…
Atlantic Features Candidate Television Tracker
The Atlantic recently used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, to comment on…
Translingual and Transcultural Digital Humanities Keynote
Kalev was one of two keynote speakers at the Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities at the Estonian Literary Museum in…
Understanding What You're Searching For In A Multilingual World
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the complexities of search engine disambiguation and examining macro-level societal trends in a multilingual…
Analyzing The First Democratic Debate
Kalev's analysis for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage examined television coverage of the first Democratic debate through the lens of audio…
Carnegie Endowment: The Complexities of Global Protests
A new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled "The Complexities of Global Protests" authored by Thomas Carothers…
Kalev Named A 2015-2016 Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform
This past August Kalev was named as a 2015-2016 Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform, one of just 43 worldwide. His…
Assessing the link between economic performance and protest activity in Europe
Mario Quaranta of Italy's Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali ‘Guido Carli’ published an article last month in the journal Current…
Library of Congress Interview: The World As Seen Through Books
Kalev was recently interviewed by Erin Engle for the Library of Congress' The Signal blog about his analysis of the…
Is America Bored With Election 2016 Already?
Kalev's new piece for the Huffington Post explores the current state of television coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign leading up to…
Donald Trump's Changing Media Fortunes
Kalev's collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to track changing television coverage of the 2016 US presidential candidates…
Network Visualization of Global Refugee Flows
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes, mapping the global flow of refugees through creating geographic networks from GDELT, includes several visualizations…
Mapping The Global Flow of Refugees Through News Coverage
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores creating geographic networks tracing the global flow of refugees using network co-occurrence analysis to…
How Massive News Mining Can Help Us Understand European Protest Trends
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the last 36 years of protest trends in Europe, creating a "protest intensity" timeline…
Do Big Data Results Depend On What Data We Look At?
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the degree to which the results we get from "big data" are truly reflective…
Highlights Of Estonian ICT Day At The World Bank And The Future Of E-Government
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes summaries the highlights of the "Estonian ICT Day" conference at the World Bank and its…
How Social Media Is Reshaping Our Understanding Of Conflict And How It Is Blinding Us
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the Yemen-Saudi Arabia conflict through the eyes of Twitter, tracing with the help of…
Assessing Turkey's Physical Stability And Societal "Mood"
Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how GDELT can be used to assess Turkey's physical stability using the GDELT Event…
The World As Seen Through Books: Comparing the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books Ngrams Collections
With the proliferation of cheap high-resolution digital imaging hardware and falling storage costs, mass digitization initiatives have gone mainstream, bringing…
GDELT Makes Appearance at #PeaceHackDC
We're excited that GDELT made an appearance at the #PeaceHackDC hackathon and thrilled that the winning project proposal involves using GDELT to track…
Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Finalist
Out of 800 submissions to the most recent Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant call, GDELT was one of just 35…