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MasterCard Moves to Patent Analytics Work That Predicts Political Events

Today's Wall Street Journal quotes Kalev in an article about MasterCard's patent application to use event data coupled with financial…

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Hacking Hospitals And Holding Hostages: Cybersecurity In 2016

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores cybersecurity trends in 2016 and the rising threat of ransomware. Read The Full Article.

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System Failure: What I've Learned As A Data Scientist In Washington

In his latest piece for Forbes, Kalev reflects back on three years as a data scientist in Washington. Read the…

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Structure Data Video Now Available!

The video of Kalev's "legendary" Structure Data 2016 talk is now available! (Screencap). One massive database, all the world at…

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To Stay Relevant, Newsrooms Rethink Campaign Coverage

Washington Post White House bureau chief Juliet Eilperin writes for Nieman Reports about the state of media coverage of the…

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How Twitter Corrupted Microsoft's Tay: A Crash Course In the Dangers Of AI In The Real World

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the dangers when AI is turned loose in the real world and how the…

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Is The Era Of Social Media Analytics Coming To An End?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the duality of social media's global ascendance and its transition from a broadcast megaphone…

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Politifact & Trump's 1.8 Billion In Free Media Coverage

Politifact quotes Kalev in their coverage of John Kasich's commentary on claims that Donald Trump has received 1.8 billion in…

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Reimagining Libraries In The Digital Era

Kalev's latest Forbes piece chronicles the last three years of his collaborations and projects data mining the Internet Archive's 20…

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Are We Mining Data Instead Of Answering Questions?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the disconnect between the growing trend of "big data" to focus on algorithms and…

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Revealing The Hidden Patterns Of News Photos

This new paper by Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An of the Qatar Computing Research Institute, titled "Revealing the Hidden Patterns…

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Cyberinfrastructure For Network Science Center Inaugural 2016 Talk

Kalev spoke today at the Cyberinfrastructure For Network Science Center at Indiana University, giving the inaugural talk of their 2016 speaker…

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NewsIR16: Comparative Analysis Of GDELT Data Using The News Site Contrast System

This paper by researchers at Hokkaido University and the National Institute of Informatics uses GDELT to examine differences in coverage….

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Commentary Magazine Features Candidate Television Tracker

Matthew Continetti writes for Commentary Magazine about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television…

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PeaceTech Summit 2016: All they are saying is give peace tech a chance

GDELT was well-represented at the US Institute of Peace's PeaceTech Summit 2016, making a number of appearances in sessions and…

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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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Structure Data 2016 Recap: A "Legendary" Talk

In his recap of Structure Data 2016, Structure Events Executive Editor Tom Krazit specifically cited Kalev's GDELT presentation: Kalev Leetaru of GDELT…

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Salon Features Candidate Television Tracker: Trump Mania

Eric Boehlert writes for Salon about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's…

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News 4 San Antonio Features Candidate Television Tracker

Amanda Ota reports for News4 San Antonio about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet…

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Independent Journal Review Features Candidate Tracker

Frank Camp writes for the Independent Journal Review about Trump's campaign and uses GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet…

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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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SXSW 2016: Fighting Wildlife Crime With Tech Innovation

As one of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Prize Winners, GDELT will be featured in the "Fighting Wildlife Crime With…

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Cyberinfrastructure For Network Science Center

Kalev will be visiting the Cyberinfrastructure For Network Science Center at Indiana University on March 21st to talk about "Quantifying, Visualizing,…

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Using Google's Deep Learning AI To Geolocate Global News Imagery

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores what it looks like to apply Google's Cloud Vision API deep learning neural network…