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Rolf Fredheim's Russia Network Visualizations
Rolf Fredheim of Cambridge University created this visually stunning series of network displays of Russia's interactions with the world over…
GDELT ISA Paper
The debut paper on GDELT was presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) meeting. Read the Full Paper.
Dissertation: Can We Forecast Conflict?
Kalev's doctoral dissertation was successfully defended in March 2013 at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information…
University of Texas at Austin iSchool Research Colloquium
Kalev gave an invited speech on "Using Big Data To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and…
University of Maryland iSchool Research Colloquium
Kalev gave an invited speech on "Using Big Data To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting…
Interview with Wired Magazine: Big Data and the Death of the Theorist
In December 2012 while in London, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke with Ian Steadman of Wired Magazine about the future…
On the Interpretability of Law
An implicit element of many theories of constitutional enforcement is the degree to which those subject to constitutional law can…
New Routledge Book: Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst
Kalev's latest book is now available from Routledge, titled Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst: An Introduction to the…
Council on Foreign Relations Workshop on Social Media and Conflict Prevention
In December 2012, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Washington DC to speak at the Council on Foreign Relations Workshop…
Big Data Analytics 2012 in London
In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to London to speak at Big Data Analytics 2012, the United Kingdom's…
United Kingdom Science & Technology Facilities Council Big Data Conference
In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Daresbury in the United Kingdom to present at the joint SGI…
UCI Evoke Laboratory Presentation
Kalev gave an invited presentation on "Using Big Data to Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting…
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
In November 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru was selected to participate in the 2012 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, The…
Mapping the Civil War Through HathiTrust's One Billion Pages of Books
In a collaboration with noted Civil War historian Vernon Burton, Kalev mapped the geography of the Civil War discourse through…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: Making Of
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: US Presidential Election
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: Hurricane Sandy
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: PufferSphere
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…
2012 Winner of HPCWire Editor's Choice Edge HPC Award
Kalev's 2012 collaboration with supercomputer manufacturer SGI to create the first geographic historical visualization of Wikipedia's view of the world…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Project
In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory Kalev debuted the first-ever realtime…
ICCM Talk at World Bank on Realtime Automated Risk Forecasting
In October 2012, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Washington DC to speak at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers…
IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012
Kalev presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on eScience, "Towards HPC for the Digital Humanities, Arts, and Social…
Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia
The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given…
CyberGIS Approach to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Kalev and Eric Shook gave the featured Showcase Presentation at The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS, titled "A CyberGIS Approach…