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World Bank: Can the Internet Solve Conflict?
The World Bank published this article yesterday titled "Can the Internet Solve Conflict" that discusses GDELT's role in cataloging the…
Introducing the Global Content Analysis Measures (GCAM)
Today we mark a truly transformative moment in the history of GDELT. From its public debut a year and a…
GDELT Appears in Poland's WPROST
Just a month shy of three years since he appeared onstage in Warsaw, Kalev is making an appearance in Poland once…
History Channel Documentary
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru is being filmed for an incredibly exciting new documentary to be aired on the History Channel/H2!…
GDELT in Romanian Big Data Meetup
The Big Data / Data Science Meetup in Cluj-Napoca, Romania recently held a workshop titled "How to think in MapReduce"…
Council on Foreign Relations Voices of the Next Generation
Kalev will be speaking later this month at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as part of its Voices of…
Reimagining Libraries as Conveners of Information and Innovation
Kalev's guest post for the Knight Blog titled "Reimagining Libraries as Conveners of Information and Innovation" explores his collaborations over…
USIP: Entrepreneurs Hunt for 'Peace Tech' to Defuse Conflict
GDELT and Kalev's presentation at the US Institute of Peace / National Academy of Engineering PeaceTech Summit is featured in the…
HASTAC Blog
Two recent GDELT projects are featured on the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Blog today: Cultural…
ICG’s Lux Real-Time Streaming Analytics Platform Features GDELT Dashboard
Back in August we mentioned that Illumina Consulting Group’s LUX real-time streaming analytics platform features a watchboarding service based on…
Why Big Data Missed the Early Warning Signs of Ebola
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores the deeper story behind how "big data" missed the emerging Ebola outbreak…
M&E Tech: The Future of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Technology in Development
Kalev presented on a panel this afternoon at the M&E Tech conference titled "How to Leverage Big Data for Better…
Webinar to AidData
Kalev presented a webinar today to a group from AidData on GDELT and how its Global Knowledge Graph can be…
TechChange Feature on GDELT
Charles Martin Shields at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution wrote this great feature on the new…
Announcing the Africa and Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG)
We are incredibly excited to announce the debut of the Africa and Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG) special collection,…
Announcing the New Human Rights Global Knowledge Graph (HR-GKG)
So much of the world’s public knowledge of human rights issues across the world are locked in textual format, scattered…
Introducing GKG 2.0 – The Next Generation of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph
We are incredibly excited to announce the official release of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) Version 2.0. This marks…
The Tricky Business of Acting on Live Data Before It’s Too Late
GigaOM's Derrick Harris talks about the need for humans to actually monitor and take action on the results of "big…
BBVA Country Risk Quarterly Report Q3 2014
The research staff in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)'s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit (BBVA is the second-largest bank in Spain) produced some…
Early Warning for Epidemic Outbreaks: GDELT Offers the Earliest Warning of Ebola Outbreak
Last month Harvard’s HealthMap initiative garnered quite a bit of press for detecting early mentions of the current Ebola outbreak…
Insight on Conflict Feature on GDELT
Charles Martin Shields at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution wrote this great feature for Insight on…
GDELT at USAID's Second Annual Frontiers in Development
Kalev spoke on GDELT yesterday at USAID's Second Annual Frontiers in Development conference at the Ronald Reagan Building. Keynotes at…
GDELT at the PeaceTech Summit: Engineering Durable Peace (NAE / USIP)
Kalev spoke yesterday on GDELT, the use of “big data” to understand conflict, and his work with the United States Institute of…
Moscow Conference on Protest Data
Kalev presented on Friday on GDELT and the process and complexities of compiling global protest data to a conference on protest…