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IRIN News Features GDELT Map

IRIN News featured yesterday's animated map of the geography of its last three months of coverage in today's DataViz section!…

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Mapping Three Months of IRIN's Coverage

In a similar vein to our past maps of A Week in the Life of the World's News Media and A…

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Creating a Customized Global GKG GeoJSON Feed

After posting about the new GDELT GKG Global GeoJSON files, we heard from quite a number of you that you were…

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Visualizing the Linguistic Geography of the World's News

There's an old adage in journalism that "all news is local" – meaning that reporters filter and narrate the news to…

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Visualization and Model Explores Insurgent Dynamics

Denes Csala created this really neat visualization of GDELT by country from 1979 to present for each country, overlaying key…

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Paper Explores Locally Adaptive Dynamic Networks

Researchers Daniele Durante (University of Padova), Xi Yang (Duke University), and David B. Dunson (Duke University) explore network inference using…

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Announcing Our First API: GKG GeoJSON!

Today we're incredibly excited to announce the official debut of our new GDELT API suite, with our very first API…

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Data Skeptics New York Meetup

Kalev presented this evening to the Data Skeptics New York Meetup on GDELT, quantitative "big data" analysis of global conflict,…

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Presentation to USASOC Futures Forum

Kalev presented today to the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Futures Forum based at Fort Bragg, focusing on GDELT and…

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Metro Features New GDELT Maps

The Metro's Harry Readhead featured three of the new GDELT maps in today's edition! See the Full Article.

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BBVA MENA May 2015 Report

The research staff at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit have produced another series of captivating risk visuals, this…

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Washington Post Features New GDELT Maps

The Washington Post's Adam Taylor featured several of the new GDELT maps in today's issue of the Washington Post! Read the…

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Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial – Part 2

The first part of this tutorial walked through the process of creating maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON…

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Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial

This tutorial describes how to create your first maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON feeds. NOTE – this…

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Mapping Protest, Unrest, and Cyber Narratives

The fifth in our series of geographic visualizations explores the geography of discussion of protests (orange), cyber (purple) and unrest…

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Mapping General Discrimination and LGBT Discourse

The fourth in our series of geographic visualizations explores the geography of LGBT-related discussion (blue) and discrimination (orange) over the…

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GDELT GKG GeoJSON Files Available

For those who want to create their own interactive GDELT maps in CartoDB like the three we've unveiled thus far…

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Mapping Food/Water Security, Transportation, and Health/Disease

As the third map in our new series of geographic visualizations of GDELT, we're excited to unveil a topical map…

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Mapping the World's Happiest and Saddest News in Realtime

Today we're incredibly excited to unveil the second of two maps showcasing the enormous power of the spatial information captured…

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An Interactive Realtime Map of the World's News

Today we're incredibly excited to unveil an interactive realtime map of the world's news, updated every hour, as seen through the…

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USASOC Futures Forum Presentation

Kalev will be presenting on GDELT at next week's United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Futures Forum.

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Slate French Translates Two GDELT Articles on Language

The French language edition of Slate translated two of Kalev's recent Foreign Policy columns on GDELT and the critical importance…

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Ben Parker: Bots Reading The News

Ben Parker of IRIN News posted this tweet examining the top themes identified by GDELT in global coverage of Burundi…

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Kalev to Present Closing Keynote at Data Summit

Kalev will be giving the closing keynote at Data Summit in New York City running May 11-13, 2015. Learn More.