Mapping Food/Water Security, Transportation, and Health/Disease
As the third map in our new series of geographic visualizations of GDELT, we're excited to unveil a topical map…
Mapping the World's Happiest and Saddest News in Realtime
Today we're incredibly excited to unveil the second of two maps showcasing the enormous power of the spatial information captured…
An Interactive Realtime Map of the World's News
Today we're incredibly excited to unveil an interactive realtime map of the world's news, updated every hour, as seen through the…
USASOC Futures Forum Presentation
Kalev will be presenting on GDELT at next week's United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Futures Forum.
Slate French Translates Two GDELT Articles on Language
The French language edition of Slate translated two of Kalev's recent Foreign Policy columns on GDELT and the critical importance…
Ben Parker: Bots Reading The News
Ben Parker of IRIN News posted this tweet examining the top themes identified by GDELT in global coverage of Burundi…
Kalev to Present Closing Keynote at Data Summit
Kalev will be giving the closing keynote at Data Summit in New York City running May 11-13, 2015. Learn More.
News vs Social Media in Climate Change Coverage
This paper by Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Nicholas Diakopoulos, and Karl Aberer explores coverage of climate change through the lens of mainstream news media…
IRIN News: Burundi News Tone Part 2
IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph tone variable once again to plot the total volume of news coverage monitored…
BBVA Geo World Conflict & Social Unrest April 2015
This past September the research staff in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit (BBVA is the second-largest bank in Spain) produced…
Multilingual Source-Country Crossreferencing Dataset
In November of last year we released a crossreference dataset estimating the country of origin for all major English-language news outlets…
Mapping 24 Hours in the Life of GDELT
Felipe Hoffa, Developer Advocate on big data at Google, put together this fantastic tutorial creating a heatmap of a day in…
"Digital Jedis" Responding to Nepal
Patrick Meier wrote this great piece for PCDN titled "A Force for Good: How Digital Jedis are Responding to the…
Audio and Transcript of Chatham House Speech
An audio recording of Kalev's invited speech at Chatham House is now available below, click on the Audio tab directly…
IRIN News: Nepal Earthquake Coverage Bias
IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph to visually demonstrate the bias in international coverage of major natural disasters,…
IRIN News: Burundi News Tone
IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph tone variable to plot the average positive/negative "tone" of global news coverage…
Nepal Earthquake: Realtime Disaster Cataloging
As with Typhoon Ruby and Cyclone Pam, GDELT is once again collaborating with OCHA, STBF, MicroMappers, and QCRI, this time to…
Kalev Speaks at Chatham House
Kalev spoke on Friday at Chatham House in London on “Using Big Data to Understand Global Conflict”, exploring how GDELT is being…
Library of Congress Blog Post on Mass Translation
Kalev’s latest guest post for the Library of Congress’ The Signal blog is “Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World…
Why We Can't Just Read English Newspapers to Understand Terrorism
Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how enormously English-centric and Western-centric our understanding of global conflict and terrorism…
Big Data For a More Resilient Future: World Bank
Kalev presented on GDELT today at the World Bank's "Big Data for a More Resilient Future" conference at the World…
CFR Tweets Kalev's Interview as "Staff Pick"
In October of last year, Kalev sat down with Vivian Schiller, formerly Chief Digital Officer of NBC News and Head of…
Announcing the GDELT Live Trends Dashboard
We are tremendously excited to announce today the official launch of the GDELT Live Trends Dashboard. Now when you visit…
Defense Science Board Briefing on GDELT
This past Tuesday Kalev gave an invited presentation to the US Defense Science Board on GDELT and the power of…