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Data Mining News To Map Global Inequality

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes maps global news coverage of inequality in all its forms, examining how the narrative surrounding…

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Address at UN ESCAP Big Data And Sustainable Development Meeting

Kalev gave the morning opening address on the second day of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia…

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Data Mining Global News For Economic Uncertainty

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores economic uncertainty and economic policy uncertainty through the eyes of GDELT 2.0, totaling more…

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A Simple Narrative Measure Of Economic Uncertainty And Economic Policy Uncertainty

Economic stability and uncertainty plays a critical role in the overall stability and well-being of a nation. Scholars like Alexopoulos &…

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How Trump's Attacks On Muslims Brought Him More Media Coverage Than Ever

Kalev's latest analysis for the Washington Post explores how Donald Trump's latest attacks on Muslims have broken his six week lull…

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A Glimpse At Burundi Through The Stability API

This past Friday Burundi once again erupted into violence with 87 people killed in attacks on three military installations.  Below…

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When Toys Are Hackable And Our Children Become Data Breach Victims

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the new realm of Internet-connected toys and the privacy and cybersecurity implications of the…

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When The Internet Turned Us All Into Online Addicts

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how the design of online services, changing social norms, and even new fields like…

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Inter-American Development Bank Opening Address

Kalev gave the opening address for the Inter-American Development Bank's summit titled "Financial Solutions With Large Datasets: "Big Data" Methods,…

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Mother Jones Features Candidate Television Tracker

Mother Jones 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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GeoDC December Meetup

Kalev presented Wednesday night to the GeoDC December Meetup, alongside Matt McNabb of FirstMileGeo and Jubal Harpster of SpatialDev to…

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Triaging Disaster Imagery: Cyclone Pam & Vanuatu

Since Typhoon Ruby last December, GDELT has provided a special live filtered stream of global news coverage of all natural…

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Exploring The Threads Of Visual Narrative

In the aftermath of any major event, from a sudden terror attack to an annual global conference, the world's news…

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Emotions From Images: Sentiment Mining The World's News Imagery

One of the incredibly exciting features of the new Google Cloud Vision API is its ability to detect and categorize the…

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A Vision Of The Future: GDELT + Google Cloud Vision API

The past year has been an incredible year for GDELT. With the public release of GDELT 2.0, we now monitor…

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Using the GDELT Stability and Word Cloud APIs to Understand The Lake Chad Attacks

Earlier today three suicide bombers attacked three different areas on the island of Koulfoua in Lake Chad, killing at least 27…

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Announcing the GDELT Thematic Word Cloud Dashboard API

We're tremendously excited to announce the latest in our rapidly growing suite of GDELT API's: the GDELT Thematic Wordcloud Dashboard API. This…

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Showing Refugees Some Love

This neat visualization by Kenneth Davis over at geovisualist.com uses the GDELT GeoJSON API and CartoDB to map positive coverage of…

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A Compilation Of GDELT BigQuery Demos

With the debut of GDELT 2.0 earlier this year and the general availability of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) in…

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O'Reilly Ideas: Analyzing The World's News

Kalev and Felipe wrote an article for O'Reilly Ideas titled "Analyzing the world’s news: Exploring the GDELT Project through Google…

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O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World Singapore Next Week

Kalev and Felipe Hoffa of Google will be presenting at the O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World conference in Singapore next week. If you're…

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Google Developer Experts Summit 2015

Last week Kalev was at Google's Mountain View campus for the Google Developer Experts Summit, as one of its Cloud…

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Why It's So Important To Understand What's In Our Web Archives

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes continues his exploration of web archives and why it is so important to understand what…

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A Practical Guide To The Encryption Debate: A Failure Of Analysis Not Encryption

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the encryption debate through historical and pragmatic lenses, examining just what options are truly…