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GDELT Featured In Strata + Hadoop World Keynote

In his keynote presentation at Strata + Hadoop World in London two weeks ago, Jordan Tigani featured how GDELT is…

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Google Cloud Platform Global User Conference NEXT 2016

GDELT was mentioned briefly during the "DATA & ANALYTICS: Pushing the Limits of BigQuery" session at the Google Cloud Platform Global…

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NGramming 9.5 Billion Words of Arabic News

One of the amazing things that happens when you monitor the world at GDELT's scale is that you begin to…

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Google I/O 2016: Tracking The Election Through GDELT / Reddit / Wikipedia

In their lively and fast-paced Google I/O 2016 talk, Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani trace mainstream and social media coverage of…

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Google I/O 2016: Election 2016 The Big Data Showdown

Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani offered a fantastic fast-paced look at Google BigQuery in their session at Google I/O 2016, showcasing how…

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Paris, Georgia and Trump Fixes

We recently made three bug fixes to address two geographic issues and one person name extraction issue. Mapping the textual geography…

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CuriousGnu: How The World Sees Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump

CuriousGnu used BigQuery put together a set of fantastic maps in CartoDB using GDELT to map the average tone of…

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GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph Reaches 46 Million Images

We are tremendously excited to announce that as of this afternoon, the GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has reached 46…

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New GKG 2.0 Article Metadata Fields

With the debut this week of our massive new document extraction platform, we are tremendously excited to unveil several new…

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The Datasets Of GDELT As Of February 2016

What would it look like to use massive computing power to see the world through others’ eyes, to break down…

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Announcing The GDELT 2.0 Release Of The Africa And Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG)

Today we are enormously excited to announce the GDELT 2.0 release of the Africa And Middle East Global Knowledge Graph (AME-GKG)…

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Mapping Global News Imagery Via Google Cloud Vision API

To showcase the power of the new Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG), which reached 19.6 million images as of March 1st,…

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US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series Presentation 2016

Kalev presented today as part of the US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series, providing an update on GDELT's massive progress…

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What It Looks Like To Process 3.5 Million Books In Google’s Cloud

GDELT's processing of the complete 1800-2015 English-language public domain digitized books collections from the Internet Archive and HathiTrust (totaling 3.5…

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Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) February 2016 Snapshot Dataset

Given the enormous interest we've been receiving in the new GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG), which processes an ever-growing fraction…

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GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) V1.0 Available

We're excited to announce that as of late yesterday afternoon, Version 1.0 of the GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG) is…

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Announcing the American Television Global Knowledge Graph (TV-GKG)

We are enormously excited to announce today the unveiling of our latest massive new dataset: the American Television Global Knowledge…

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Fortune Article On Big Data For Research Era Mentions GDELT

A article in Fortune from last month about Yahoo's latest release of another large web dataset for academic use cites…

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Mapping World Happiness And Conflict Through Global News And Image Mining

A series of maps of the world as seen through nearly 200 million global news articles, 1.4 million photographs, 89 million…

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Making a Global Conflict Map of 2015

A perennially popular request is the creation of global "conflict maps" summarizing the state of world events over time and…

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A Country-Level Network Diagram of 2015

Following in the footsteps of yesterday's city-level network diagram of the world, we've put together the following two visuals, illustrating…

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A City-Level Network Diagram of 2015 In One Line of SQL

What would it look like to visualize how the world's cities are connected through worldwide news reporting in 2015? Looking…

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Mapping The 2015 Media Geography In One Line of SQL

Kalev's latest Forbes piece includes an interactive clickable map of the major news outlets covering each location on earth, as…

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72 Hours Of Fire Imagery: Saudi Protests & Yemen Bombings

With the arson attack on the Saudi Arabian embassy in Iran last night, we wanted to see how well the…