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Communications of the ACM TECHNEWS: Can computers replace historians?
Today's Communications of the ACM's TECHNEWS roundup features BBC News' coverage of the GDELT pilot study on correlating the patterns of world history. Read the Communications…
Topic Mining The World's News with GDELT with NGrams – Felipe Hoffa
Felipe Hoffa is a Developer Advocate on big data at Google, whose mission is "to inspire developers around the world to leverage…
Wolfram Data Summit 2014: What It Takes to Compute on the Whole World
Kalev will be speaking at the 2014 Wolfram Data Summit, presenting "What It Takes to Compute on the Whole World."…
GDELT Dashboard Featured As CartoDB Map of the Week
The new GDELT Global Conflict Dashboard, created with the support of the United States Institute of Peace, was featured as CartoDB's…
ICG's Lux Real-Time Streaming Analytics Platform Creates GDELT Watchboard
Illumina Consulting Group's LUX real-time streaming analytics platform features a watchboarding service based on GDELT: "LUX ingests high volume dynamic…
BBC: Can computers replace historians?
Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News writes this fantastic article about the GDELT pilot study on correlating the patterns of world history. Read…
‘Gamifying’ World News: Fantasy Geopolitics Uses GDELT to Teach High Schoolers About Global Events
We’re hugely excited that Fantasy Geopolitics is now using GDELT as part of its daily country ranking! Launched in 2009…
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)…