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GDELT has a new home!
Welcome to the new official website of the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project, now at www.gdeltproject.org!…
GDELT Global Knowledge Graph
We are tremendously excited to announce the debut of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG), which expands GDELT’s ability to…
Mapping the Global Conversation: A Network Visual of the World
What happens when you take six months of news coverage from around the world and compile a list of every…
Washington Post Features Global Twitter Heartbeat as Top Map
The Washington Post recently ran a special feature entitled "40 more maps that explain the world" in which it "searched…
New SyFy Reality Series Opposite Worlds Continues to Set Records
The SyFy channel's flagship new reality series, Opposite Worlds, monitors the live Twitter discourse around the show 24/7 to create…
Half a Billion Views to 2013's Biggest Stories
All 675 million references to the more than 69 million events captured by GDELT for 2012-2013 were scanned for global…
New GDELT Daily Trend Reports
UPDATE 2/6/2016: We are still publishing these files daily, but the list of world leaders is not currently being updated…
Brazilian Protest Themes in the Global Knowledge Graph
This is a guest post by Andrew Halterman. The Global Knowledge Graph, in the words of Kalev Leetaru, aims to “connect every…
Kalev's Research Powers New SyFy Reality Series Opposite Worlds
The SyFy channel's flagship new reality series, Opposite Worlds, is a prototype of the future of television in which the…
Guest Knight Blog Post on Internet Archive Virtual Reading Room
Roger Macdonald of the Internet Archive and GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru wrote this guest post for the Knight Foundation's blog…
Kalev to Teach Georgetown University's First Comprehensive Big Data Course
Kalev will be teaching Georgetown University's first comprehensive "big data" course as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Edmund A….
FP's Favorite Reads of 2013
Each year Foreign Policy magazine's editors and columnists review their favorite reads of the year. For 2013 Kalev reviewed Anthony…
King Snowden and the Fall of Wikileaks – Network Mapping of Newsmakers
The GDELT Global Knowledge Graph to identify all people mentioned in articles referencing Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Wikileaks. A…
SBP 2014 Conference Grand Data Challenge Features GDELT
The Grand Data Challenge of the 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP14) is titled "Computing…
Over 100 Turn Out for GDELT DC Hackathon Hosted by Gallup
Over 100 people showed up for the GDELT hackathon held in Washington, DC on December 18, 2013 hosted by Gallup…
GDELT DC Hackathon – Hosted by Gallup
GDELT DC HACKATHON – HOSTED BY GALLUP Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Washington, DC – The Gallup Building Following the tremendously…
Global Twitter Heartbeat Featured as #1 Social Media Study of 2013
Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab produces a monthly roundup of "the top papers in digital media and journalism" and at end…
Mapping Half a Million Hours of the Internet Archive's TV Archive: Three-Year Animation
In collaboration with the Internet Archive Kalev mapped nearly half a million hours of American television news programming covering the…
Mapping the Geography of American Television News
This collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive is exploring the geography of American television news using the Archive's…
Mapping Half a Million Hours of the Internet Archive's TV Archive: Interactive Geographic Search
In collaboration with the Internet Archive Kalev mapped nearly half a million hours of American television news programming covering the…
Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013
Foreign Policy magazine has named GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru as one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, recognizing…
EIHR Estonian Conference on Human Rights and Freedom to Association
In December 2013, on the 65th anniversary of the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Kalev traveled to…
Quoted in Discover Magazine's 100 Top Stories of 2013
Kalev was quoted as an "expert in big data," discussing the ways in which data exhaust is being used by…
The Tehran Connection – A Big Data Network View of Iran's Leadership
The GDELT Global Knowledge Graph to identify all people mentioned in articles referencing any location in Iran between April and…