Video: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference 2017 Keynote
The video of Kalev's keynote at Bucknell University's 2017 Digital Scholarship Conference is now available. Watch it below!
Vox: Sean Hannity Has Become The Media’s Top Conspiracy Theorist
Vox uses GDELT to trace how broadcast news covers conspiracy theories. Read The Full Article.
Web Summit 2017 Video
Watch the full video of Kalev's Web Summit 2017 talk below!
TECH News: WebSummit Interview
TECH News interviewed Kalev at WebSummit this week. Read More.
Forecasting Civil Unrest Using Social Media and Protest Participation Theory
Congyu Wu and Matthew Gerber combined GDELT with Twitter data to explore forecasting civil unrest in the Arab Spring. Read…
SEG 2017: Public Perception Of Fracking
Kalev Leetaru and Hannes Leetaru presented a poster on "Public Perception of Fracking" at the "2017 SEG/SPE Workshop on injection-induced…
FiveThirtyEight: All The Cable News Networks Are Covering The ‘Russia Story’ — Just Not The Same One
Dhrumil Mehta's latest FiveThirtyEight analysis uses data from the Television Explorer to compare how the major television networks are covering…
Web Summit 2017 This Week
Kalev will be speaking this week at Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal at noon on November 8th. Billed as…
The Palm Oil Industry: Visualized through Big Data
This study coauthored with Gabriel Thoumi uses data from Bloomberg and other financial databases, a set of PERL scripts and…
GDELT Passes One Billion Articles Processed
We're incredibly excited to announce that GDELT recently passed an incredible milestone: more than one billion global news articles processed….
GDELT + Internet Archive = 5.4 Billion URLs And 221TB Of News Content Preserved
In August 2014 GDELT joined the Internet Archive's "No More 404" program to provide a live stream of global news…
NPM gdelt-toolkit 0.3.1
James Conkling has released version 0.3.1 of an NPM interface to GDELT. Learn More – NPM Website. Learn More –…
Vox: A week of Fox News transcripts shows how they began questioning Mueller’s credibility
Vox put together a great set of infographics exploring national television news coverage of the Mueller investigation. Read The Full…
The Trace: Here’s How Quickly Cable News Lost Interest in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting
The Trace put together a set of fantastic infographics that show how quickly American television news lost interest in several…
FAA's NextGen Flight Paths And When Data Makes Government Too Efficient
The FAA’s obstacles in rolling out its new data-driven flight paths illustrate the backlash that can face attempts to modernize…
Amazon's Key Camera And Are We Building 1984 For Law Enforcement?
Amazon’s new Key service transforms package delivery, but raises the question of how law enforcement might leverage a national centralized…
What A Defaced Jeff Koons Sculpture Tells Us About Land Ownership In Augmented Reality
From the nascent web’s domain cybersquatting to social media’s account squatting, the offline-online divide begs the question of just what…
To Be Truly Useful AI Assistants Need To Learn To Anticipate
AI assistants today largely lack the ability to recognize that a traffic jam means we’ll be late for work, a…
The Google Maps Calorie Counter And The Information Age's Right To Ignorance?
As we race to saturate the world with ever more information, we are increasingly realizing that not everyone wants to…
Brown Daily Herald's Coverage Of Greater Good Gathering Inaugural Conference
The Brown Daily Herald covered the Greater Good conference and discusses Kalev's exploration of how data is allowing us to…
DataDay Seattle 2017
Kevin Madden of Tom Sawyer Software presented a case study using GDELT's GKG at DataDay Seattle 2017. Learn More.
Central Bank Financial Stability Report Sentiment Dictionary Available in GCAM
Ricardo Correa, Keshav Garud, Juan-Miguel Londono-Yarce and Nathan Mislang published an IFDP working paper earlier this year titled "Sentiment in…
Is It Too Late For Big Data Ethics?
Despite a flurry of academic and industry efforts aimed at changing views on big data research ethics, it seems the…
Replacing US Social Security Numbers With Estonia's Cryptographic Model?
As the US grapples with how to replace its obsolete obsession with the 80-year old Social Security Number, perhaps Estonia’s…