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Hague Centre for Strategic Studies Releases Two Reports Using GDELT
The Hague Center for Strategic Studies recently released two reports that use GDELT to measure global conflict and cooperation, Balancing…
Nextgov ViewCast: Keeping Pace With Big Data
Kalev spoke alongside Micheline Casey, Chief Data Officer of the United States Federal Reserve Board on Atlantic Media's Nextgov's viewcast titled…
GDELT Celebrates 1 Million Downloads!
Its been six months since GDELT opened in its new home, supported by Google Ideas, and what an incredible six…
Google Cloud Platform Blog on Patterns of World History Study
Felipe Hoffa wrote this great post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog with more technical detail on how BigQuery enabled…
GigaOM Covers GDELT Patterns of World History Study
Derrick Harris of GigaOM covered the GDELT "Patterns of World History" study in this fantastic article. Read the Full Article.
Towards Psychohistory: Uncovering the Patterns of World History with Google BigQuery
Two months ago we unveiled in Google BigQuery access to the entire quarter-billion-record GDELT Event Database, which monitors the world’s…
Wilson Quarterly Covers GDELT
The Wilson Quarterly covers GDELT in an article by Caitlin Moniz titled "What a Moneyball Style Analysis Tells Us About…
Science at the United States – Africa Leader's Summit at the National Press Club
GDELT creator Kalev H. Leetaru spoke today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at the "Science at the…
Kalev Advises New Columbia University Applied Analytics Program
Kalev spent the day at Columbia University advising its new Applied Analytics program, led by Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo…
Op-Ed on Reimagining Innovation in Government
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru wrote an op-ed for the Orange County Register that reimagines what innovation should look like for…
The Emotion of Twitter as the Future of Interactive Television
The SyFy channel’s highest-rated unscripted series Face Off makes use of the next generation of Kalev’s Twitter research, used this past…
Mapping A World in Motion: A Daily Dashboard of Global Conflict
(CLICK TO OPEN MAP)Imagine a map that uses computers to “read” news reports from across the entire world each day,…
GDELT At OSCON 2014
InfiniDB's Chief Technology Officer, Jim Tommaney, demonstrated querying and analyzing the complete GDELT event database running in their InfiniDB database platform…
Vice's Motherboard Covers GDELT
Ben Makuch of Vice's Motherboard wrote this great article about how GDELT is reshaping how we monitor and understand the…
Wilson Center Event on Data Journalism and Policymaking
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru will be speaking on July 30th alongside Alexander Howard at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC…
Twitter Research to Power Audience Interaction with SyFy's Face Off Series
The SyFy channel's highest-rated unscripted series Face Off will use the next generation of Kalev's Twitter research, used this past…
GDELT Now on Data.gov!
We are excited to announce that GDELT is now available on data.gov, courtesy of the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD)…
Kojo Nnamdi Show Discussion on Sentiment Mining
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru was part of a panel this week on the Kojo Nnamdi Show talking about the state…
Mashable Discussion of ISIS Social Media
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru is quoted in a Mashable article on ISIS's evolving use of "social media as an actual…
Kalev Named World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member
We are incredibly honored and excited to announce that GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru has been named as a Council Member…
2014 National Academies NAKFI Conference: Collective Behavior
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru will be attending the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference "Collective Behavior: From Cells…
National Academies Keck Grants on Government Dashboards and Learning in Medicine
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru will be in Chicago on August 22nd for the mid-cycle progress update meeting for grant awardees…
Mapping Ebola Using GDELT's GKG
Reuters published a new infographic on Monday that uses World Health Organization data to map the spread of the ebola…
Visualizing GDELT In Tableau Using BigQuery
Julius Concepion shows off a screen capture visualizing the entire quarter-billion-record GDELT event database in realtime using Tableau and Google's…