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New York Times Feature on SMA Work
Today's edition of the New York Times features an article on research convened by the Department of Defense's Strategic Multilayer Assessment…
GigaOM Structure Data 2015 Speaker
Kalev will be joining an incredible list of speakers at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference in New York City March…
Typhoon Ruby: Realtime Aid Tracking Pilot with OCHA
In response to Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…
Exploring GDELT Using Tableau and BigQuery
The latest version of Tableau offers direct integration with Google BigQuery, meaning you can leverage Tableau's incredibly powerful point-and-click visual analytics…
BBVA Geo World Report: Second Half 2014
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…
Library of Congress Blog On 500 Years of Book Images
Together with David Ayman Shamma, lead of the HCI Research Group at Yahoo! Labs and Scientific Liaison to Flickr, and…
Spanish Edition of ANEW Now Available in GCAM
We're tremendously excited to announce our first foray into scoring the emotional undercurrents of the non-English world. While it might…
AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting: Big Data & Human Rights
Kalev will be speaking at the 2015 AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting titled "Big Data & Human Rights"…
Pew Research Internet Project Report: The Future of Privacy
Kalev was one of the experts asked to provide his views on the future of the internet for Pew Research’s “Digital…
GigaOM Excerpts of Pew Internet Privacy Report
Kalev's responses for the Pew Research Center's Internet Project report on The Future of Privacy were included in GigaOM's summary of…
GDELT Cited in Patrick Meier's New Digital Humanitarians Book
Patrick Meier's new book, titled "Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response" tells "the compelling story of how…
A Global Big Data Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards CCS
Just shy of a decade since their first father-and-son study exploring global media coverage of carbon sequestration and climate change, Kalev and…
Three Months of 500 Years of Book Images
When not codifying the world's news, GDELT Creator Kalev Leetaru collaborated earlier this year with the Internet Archive and Flickr to extract…
Paper Explores Inferring Polyadic Events With Poisson Tensor Factorization
Researchers Aaron Schein (University of Massachusetts Amherst), John Paisley (Columbia University), David Blei (Columbia University), and Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)…
Over 100 New GKG Themes Added
You may have noticed the appearance over the last few weeks of over 100 new themes that we've added to the GDELT…
Institute of International Finance Talk
Kalev spoke today at the Institute of International Finance about GDELT and the ways in which "big data" is reshaping…
Infectious Disease Mapping and Early Warning with GDELT
The ebola outbreak of the past year has intensified interest in early warning and situational awareness mapping of infectious disease across the…
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center IV MOOC
We are excited to announce that GDELT has been accepted as a "client" of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center…
Winners of Romanian BigData/DataScience Contest on GDELT
This past September the Big Data / Data Science Meetup in Cluj-Napoca, Romania held a workshop titled “How to think in MapReduce”…
Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) Now Available in GCAM
We are excited to announce that the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) dimensions are now available in GCAM! Produced…
Google Developer Group DevFestDC 2014
Kalev presented today at the Google Developer Group DevFest conference in Washington DC, DevFestDC 2014 on how the GDELT project makes use…
Announcing New Source-Country Crossreferencing Dataset
As GDELT is increasingly used to deeply explore the geography of the global media landscape, we've been hearing from many of…
Center for Global Development
Kalev gave the opening breakfast keynote at an event for the Center for Global Development, discussing how big data is reshaping our…
National Academies NAKFI Conference: From Cells to Societies
Kalev participated in the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference “Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies” last week in Irvine,…