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Mapping at Infinite Scale: Terascale and Petascale Cartography and Big Data in the BigQuery Era

This past Saturday, on Halloween, the GDELT 2.0 Global Knowledge Graph reached 150 million articles in 65 languages from just…

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New One Minute Maps: BigQuery UDF + CartoDB

We're incredibly excited to announce today the ability to generate rich interactive geographic maps in less than 60 seconds from…

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Tableau Iron Viz 2015: Bias In The News Media

Matt Chamber's fascinating entry in last week's Tableau 2015 Iron Viz Championship at the MGM Grand focuses on using the emotional dimensions of GDELT…

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Tableau Iron Viz 2015: Optimism vs Pessimism in News Sources

Another exciting entry is last week's Tableau 2015 Iron Viz Championship at the MGM Grand was a dashboard by Skyler Johnson that…

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GDELT 2.0 GKG Reaches 150 Million Records

We're excited to announce that earlier today the GDELT 2.0 Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) reached a total of just over 150 million…

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Stability Dashboard API Examples: Assessing Non-Events

Daily life across the planet involves an incredible array of activities that can impact the overall "stability" and "mood" of…

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Getting Started with GDELT + Google Cloud Datalab: Simple Network Visualizations

Following up from our last post of simple timeline visualizations you can make using Google's new Cloud Datalab, Felipe Hoffa…

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Getting Started with GDELT + Google Cloud Datalab: Simple Timelines

Google recently released Google Cloud Datalab which provides a cloud-hosted version of Jupyter/IPython that is tightly coupled with Google BigQuery, Google…

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O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World

Kalev and Felipe Hoffa of Google will be presenting at the O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World conference in Singapore this coming December…

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Structure Data 2016

Kalev will be speaking at Structure Data 2016 in San Francisco on March 9-10th of next year alongside some of…

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International Business Times Features Candidate Television Tracker

The International Business Times recently used GDELT's 2016 Candidate Television Tracker, which uses data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, to…

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Stability Dashboard API Quick Examples

Last week we announced the new GDELT Stability Dashboard API, created through the support of the PeaceTech Lab.  To demonstrate…

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Map of Global Antitank and MANPADS Weapons

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes includes an interactive CartoDB map visualizing eight months of global coverage of antitank and MANPADS…

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Mapping The Global Spread Of Antitank And MANPADS Weapons Through News Mining

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes uses GDELT to map global discussion of antitank and MANPADS weapons over the course of…

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Tableau Iron Viz Championship 2015

We are tremendously excited that GDELT was the featured dataset at the Tableau 2015 Iron Viz Championship held at the MGM Grand…

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Internet Archive Library Leaders Forum 2015

Kalev spoke at the evening event opening the Internet Archive's Library Leaders Forum 2015, offering a whirlwind 10 minute journey through…

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Announcing the GDELT Stability Dashboard API: Stability Timeline

We're tremendously excited today to announce the new GDELT Stability Dashboard API!  This new API service, created through the support of…

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Atlantic Features Candidate Television Tracker

The Atlantic 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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Translingual and Transcultural Digital Humanities Keynote

Kalev was one of two keynote speakers at the Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities at the Estonian Literary Museum in…

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Understanding What You're Searching For In A Multilingual World

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the complexities of search engine disambiguation and examining macro-level societal trends in a multilingual…

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Analyzing The First Democratic Debate

Kalev's analysis for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage examined television coverage of the first Democratic debate through the lens of audio…

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Carnegie Endowment: The Complexities of Global Protests

A new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled "The Complexities of Global Protests" authored by Thomas Carothers…

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Kalev Named A 2015-2016 Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform

This past August Kalev was named as a 2015-2016 Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform, one of just 43 worldwide. His…

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Assessing the link between economic performance and protest activity in Europe

Mario Quaranta of Italy's Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali ‘Guido Carli’ published an article last month in the journal Current…