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Mapping Sexual And Gendered Violence Across The World 2015-2016

Following the template laid out in our BigQuery+UDF One Minute Maps, today we unveil a map that offers a glimpse…

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VGKG 2.0 Metadata Stats At 2 Weeks

In the two weeks since the new Visual Knowledge Graph 2.0 (VGKG 2.0) debuted, it has been incredibly exciting to…

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Dodging The Memory Hole: Archiving Online News

Kalev presented today at "Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News" on the UCLA campus about GDELT's collaboration with…

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Geofeedia Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg: The Era Of Social Surveillence

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the evolving world of social media surveillence in the context of the ACLU/Geofeedia report. Read…

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VGKG 2.0 Released

We are incredibly excited to announce today the release of Version 2.0 of the GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG),…

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WorldAffairs 2016

Kalev will be speaking at WorldAffairs 2016 in San Francisco next month, joining an incredible cast of luminaries from across…

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2016 Charleston Library Conference

Kalev is giving a plenary address at the 2016 Charleston Library Conference in November titled "Reimagining Our World At Planetary Scale: The…

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Global Fishing Watch And How The Development Community Needs Tech Help

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the technology and development communities need to collaborate much more closely together. Read the…

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The Media Got It Wrong: What Facebook's Video Ads Issue Tells Us About Big Data Metrics

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the tech media got the story all wrong about Facebook's Video Ads metrics and…

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Could US Government Innovation Challenges Fund Cyberattacks On US Industry?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how US Government innovation challenges struggle with accountability and evaluation and allow for the funding…

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How Automated Curation And Chat Bots Could Restore The Human Touch To Online Commerce

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how chat bots and automated curation could vastly improve online shopping and what we've lost…

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Websearch University

Kalev spoke at Websearch University today to an audience of search professionals from the commercial, academic and governmental space on how…

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Will Facebook Replace The News Media?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the ways in which Facebook is reshaping the landscape of global journalism. Read the Full…

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Hacking The US Election: How The Worlds Of Cyberwarfare And Politics Are Colliding Spectacularly

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how cyberwarfare is playing a growing and evolving role in electoral politics and the potential…

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What Facebook's Aftenposten Censorship Teaches Us About Facebook's Role As Worldwide Editor In Chief

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the Facebook Aftenposten photograph censorship and what it tells us about Facebook's growing influence over…

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Analysing World Events Using the GDELT dataset and Google BigQuery

Ali Niknejad of the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London will be speaking at the Research Software Engineers…

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Smithsonian Covers Twitter Social Activism

Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Kalev for an article out this month on how Black Lives Matter and other social activism groups…

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What Is A Data Scientist And Should We Instead Be Talking About Data Teams?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what it really means to talk about "data scientists" and the collaborative nature of modern…

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How The Cloud Stands To Reshape Academic Computing

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how the commercial cloud is reshaping the academic and HPC environments. Read the Full Article.

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The Big Data Era of Mosaicked Deidentification: Can We Anonymize Data Anymore?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the world of mosaicked deidentification and whether we can truly anonymize data anymore. Read the…

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How Cell Phones Can Map The CIA: Is Location Secrecy Dead?

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the landscape of location privacy in the digital era and how cell phones can be…

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Announcing Partitioned GDELT BigQuery Tables

As GDELT has grown to truly extraordinary scale, the sheer magnitude of all of that data has made it increasingly…

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Mongabay: GDELT: Mining And Mapping Global Wildlife Crime News

Julia John wrote this great piece for Mongabay's WildTech about GDELT's wildlife crime mapping. Read the Full Article.

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Independent Candidates Added To Television Candidate Tracker

It is truly incredible and humbling to be able to create tools that are used all over the world. While created…