Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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."…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

‘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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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.

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

Wilson Quarterly Covers GDELT

The Wilson Quarterly covers GDELT in an article by Caitlin Moniz titled "What a Moneyball Style Analysis Tells Us About…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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,…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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…

Continue Reading

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)…