What Reviewing 650,000 Emails Can Teach Us About Human Versus Machine Analysis
Much of the tech press this week argued how trivial technology made it for the FBI to review the 650,000…
What Opinion Polls Teach Us About Data Versus Truth
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how all data has a huge number of assumptions built into it and why we…
Charleston Library Opening Keynote
Kalev gave the opening keynote on Friday at the Charleston Conference in the stunning Gaillard Center performance hall in South Carolina, speaking…
GDELT Featured In BigQuery + Excel Documentation Example
GDELT was used as an example in a tutorial on how to connect Bigquery to Excel on Google's Big Data…
Connecting BigQuery To Microsoft Excel Using The New ODBC Driver
A new post by Tim Swast on the cloud big data and machine learning blog showcases a number of fascinating…
World Affairs 2016: 70 Years
Kalev spoke at World Affairs' 70th annual event in San Franciso last week on the evolving world of cyberwarfare and especially…
Has Social Media Killed Free Speech?
Kalev's latest piece explores how the centralization of the web into a handful of social media walled gardens sets a…
The Dyn DDOS Attack And The Changing Balance Of Online Cyber Power
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the DDOS attack against Dyn in the context of how the evolving world of cyber…
gdeltPyR
Linwood Creekmore created this neat Python-based framework that pulls GDELT 1.0 and 2.0 data into Python Pandas and R dataframes using…
From Cellphone Tracking To Facial Recognition: Minority Report Is Here
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the burgeoning world of electronic surveillance. Read the Full Article.
Julian Assange's Internet Access And How Facebook Could Be The End Of Wikileaks
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores how as the web centralizes towards a handful of walled gardens, Facebook's central role in…
The Hidden World Of News Imagery EXIF Metadata & iPhones As News Cameras
Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores 48 hours of the GDELT Visual Knowledge Graph (VGKG)'s new EXIF metadata extraction. Read the…
Geographic FeatureID To Common Name Crosswalk
UPDATE: This dataset has been updated May 2018. In support of its global geocoding efforts, GDELT maintains gazetteers containing several…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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),…
WorldAffairs 2016
Kalev will be speaking at WorldAffairs 2016 in San Francisco next month, joining an incredible cast of luminaries from across…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…