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World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2016

We're tremendously excited to announce that GDELT was featured in the World Economic Forum's 11th annual Global Risks Report 2016….

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GDELT At Structure Data 2016 in San Francisco

Come listen to GDELT Founder Kalev Leetaru speak about what it takes to compute on the entire planet at Structure…

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Bustle Magazine Features Candidate Television Tracker

Bustle Magazine recently used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, to comment on…

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2016 Candidate Word Clouds Extended Back to January 2015

We're excited to announce that our 2016 candidate word clouds have now been extended back to January 1, 2015! They…

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A Year And A Half Of 500 Years Of The World's Book Images

Just under a year and a half ago, in August 2014, Kalev debuted the Internet Archive Book Images collection, a…

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2016 Candidate Word Clouds

As part of our ongoing experiments in how to represent the firehose of data that GDELT monitors each day, we've…

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GCAM Reaches 40 Dictionaries

We're excited to announce that with the most recent flurry of new dictionaries added over this past week, GCAM now…

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Detry, Lopo & Hogenraad Portuguese Emotion & Pro-Social Available in GCAM

We're excited that Brigitte Detry, Teresa Lopo and Robert Hogenraad's Portuguese dictionary of affective values is now available in GCAM….

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Regressive Imagery Dictionary: French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish

We're excited to announce that the French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish versions of Colin Martindale's Regressive Imagery Dictionary…

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Hogenraad & Orianne's French Imagery Dictionary Available In GCAM

We're excited to announce that the French Imagery Dictionary by Robert Hogenraad and Etienne Orianne is now available in GCAM. The…

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Martindale's Temperament/Elements Available In GCAM

We're excited that Martindale & Martindale's Temperaments/Elements Dictionary is now available in GCAM! This dictionary draws from Bachelard and Greek theory…

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Hogenraad's Motive Dictionary Available in GCAM

We're excited to announce that Robert Hogenraad's Motive Dictionary is now available in GCAM!  It is available in English, French, and…

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NECO Workshop @ ICWSM 2016

GDELT and the Yahoo News interaction dataset are the two datasets for the First International Workshop on News and Public Opinion,…

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Heise's Semantic Differential Values Available in GCAM

Heise's Semantic Differential values are now available in GCAM!  Published in 1965, these values draw from earlier work by Charles Osgood,…

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Hogenraad's TIME Dictionary Available GCAM

Time plays a critical role in how we reason about the world and define events and narratives. Historically most content…

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USASOC Futures Forum Briefing

In an update to his May 2015 briefing, Kalev gave a briefing to the United States Army Special Operations Command…

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UN My World Survey Topics Added to GKG 2.0

The United Nations My World Survey topics have been added to the GKG 2.0 topical taxonomy as implemented by UNGP with modifications….

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Moral Foundations Dictionary Now Available In GCAM

The Moral Foundations Dictionary by Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt is now available in GCAM. It scores each article along…

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VADER Sentiment Lexicon Now Available in GCAM

The VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) Sentiment Lexicon is now available in GCAM. Unlike the base and NLTK…

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The Internet Archive Turns 20: A Behind The Scenes Look At Archiving The Web

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the Internet Archive has evolved over the past 20…

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Policing Meets Big Data: A Lesson In Sentiment Mining, Data Recency And Dashboards

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the increasing use of technology for policing and focuses on some of the critical…

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From Medical Tests To Drones In Backyards: Is Physical Privacy Dead?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the changing landscape of privacy in the digital era, from company-required "wellness" medical tests…

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When Cameras And Wearables Could Be Used To Steal Passwords And Keys

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how cameras and wearable devices, when coupled with sophisticated computer algorithms, can be used…

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Is The Internet Evolving Away From Freedom of Speech?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how online norms of freedom of speech are evolving in the era of social…