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Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?

Patrick Tucker of Atlantic Media's Defense One has a new article out yesterday titled "Can the Military Make a Prediction Machine?"…

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Library of Congress Blog Post on a Decade of Exploring the Geography of Text

Kalev's latest guest post for the Library of Congress' The Signal blog is "Mapping Words: Lessons Learned From a Decade…

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Disasters Live Stream Now Includes Raw GKG 2.0

Ever since we released the GDELT Live Stream for UN OCHA/ReliefWeb Disasters last month, we've gotten a lot of interest in…

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Mapping a Month of BBC vs the New York Times

Following in the footsteps of our last post, Mapping a Week in the Life of the World's News Media, we…

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Mapping A Week in the Life of the World's News Media

GDELT's ability to reach deeply into the geography of the world's local news media across 65 languages opens the door…

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Kalev to Give Invited Talk At Chatham House

We are enormously honored to announce that Kalev will be giving an invited talk at Chatham House while in London later…

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Kalev Named as Senior Fellow at George Washington University

We are tremendously excited to announce that Kalev has been named as a Senior Fellow at the George Washington University Center for…

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GDELT Live Visual News Map

We're excited to announce the debut today of the latest addition to the GDELT Live realtime global dashboard: the new Visual…

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Seeing The World Through Mass Translation of Local News

Kalev's guest post for the Knight Blog titled "Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World Through Mass Translation of Local News"…

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Columbia Journal of International Affairs Interview

The Fall/Winter 2014 edition of Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs features "The Possibility of Global Data Sets – An…

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US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series Presentation

Kalev presented today as part of the US Department of Defense SMA Speaker Series on "GDELT 2.0: Understanding the Global World…

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Announcing the GDELT Live Realtime Global Dashboard

We are enormously excited to announce today the official launch of the GDELT Live realtime global dashboard!  With the release of…

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GDELT Reaches 300 Million Events

This past Monday, GDELT reached an incredible milestone: the GDELT Event dataset surpassed 300 million events mentioned 2.5 billion times…

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Neural Networks for Realtime Image Recognition of Disaster Coverage

With the debut of GDELT 2.0, GDELT now monitors the world’s news media, including small local, citizen, and regional media outlets…

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Cyclone Pam: Realtime Disaster Cataloging

This past December in response to Typhoon Ruby, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…

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Medium Post On GDELT

John Wittenauer wrote this fantastic piece about GDELT which includes some wonderful quotes like "there are times when I’m reminded just…

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IA GigaOM Archive Mentioned at SXSW

As we previously noted, Kalev was originally scheduled to speak at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference this week, along with…

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Understanding Global Conflict And Disasters Through BigQuery: Advanced Examples

BigQuery makes it possible to explore data at scales limited really only by your imagination and to help get you…

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Kalev Speaking at GigaOM Structure Data 2015

We're incredibly honored that Kalev will be joining an incredible list of speakers at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference later this…

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GDELT Live Stream For UN OCHA/ReliefWeb Disasters

This past December in response to Typhoon Ruby, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…

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Telling the Story of Falling Oil Prices Through GDELT

Ali Rebaie put together this exploration of network and narrative changes around the fall of oil prices using GDELT. Read the…

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Google BigQuery + GKG 2.0: Sample Queries

Making the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph available in Google BigQuery has been one of the most-requested features since the debut…

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World Bank Group Topical Taxonomy Now in GKG

We're excited to announce today that with the support of the World Bank Group we have incorporated the entire World…

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NFAIS Opening Keynote

Kalev presented the opening keynote today at the  National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Annual Conference.  His keynote, titled “The User…