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Social Movements Through Media and Search: Black Lives Matter

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the unique "M"-shaped search and media coverage patterns of social movements. Read the Full…

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Map of Global Climate Change News Coverage

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes includes an interactive CartoDB map visualizing seven months of global coverage of climate change and…

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Public Interest In Climate Change And Its Global News Coverage

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes examines global news coverage of climate change and extreme weather events in 2015 and includes…

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Network Visualization of 2016 Candidate Contextualization Overlap

One of the visualization's in Kalev's latest piece for Forbes involved exploring the network structure around how the 2016 candidates…

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Trump The Center of the Political Universe

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the 2016 US presidential campaign through the lens of topic analysis and a highly…

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Sanders Now Beating Clinton, Trump Higher Than Ever

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores Google web, Google News, and YouTube searches for Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Donald…

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The Television Debate Wars

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores television coverage of the second Republican debate, using mass-scale audio fingerprinting across the Internet…

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The Geographic Limits Of Big Data

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the geographic limits of big data and how it is all too easy for…

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Wired's Apple News Experiment: What It Says About The Future Of Journalism

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the ramifications of Wired's recent exclusive with Apple News and the future of journalism…

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Bernie Rising, Hillary Fading: How Bernie Sanders Is Winning the Media War

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes shows how Bernie is on the rise in media coverage, Hillary is fading, Bernie's coverage…

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No Trump Is Not Fading: Did Politico Miss That Trump Drives The Race?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes shows that by using percentages instead of raw numbers you get a totally different picture…

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Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Finalist!

We're incredibly excited to announce that GDELT has been selected as one of 44 Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Finalists!  GDELT's…

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Keynote at conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities

Kalev will be one of two keynote speakers at the Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities at the Estonian Literary…

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Second Republican Debate Word Clouds: What the Candidates Talked About

Kalev's latest Forbes piece visualizes the language used by each candidate in the second Republican debate through a series of…

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Mapping 212 Years of History Through Books

Kalev's latest Forbes piece includes an incredible new interactive animated zoomable map of 212 years of world history as seen through…

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History as Big Data: 500 Years of Book Images and Mapping Millions of Books

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the notion of history as "big data," surveying the Internet Archive Book Images project from…

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Data, Politics And Television: Lessons Learned From the First Republican Debate

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the lessons learned from the first Republican debate. Read the Full Article.

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Mapping the EU Migration Crisis Through Google Searches

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores the European migration crisis through the lens of Google searches, examining the latest report by…

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A New Blog at the Intersection of Data and Global Society

Today we are incredibly excited to announce that Kalev is now a Contributor to Forbes, where he will be writing…

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The World's Short Attention Span Quantified

Kalev's latest Atlantic piece explores global media fatigue and how quickly we forget and turn a blind eye to natural…

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What It Looks Like to Process 3.5 Million Books

While we'll be putting together a longer piece soon that goes into far more detail on how we processed the…

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Google BigQuery + 3.5M Books: Sample Queries

To help you get started with the latest GDELT collection of 3.5 million digitized historical English language books published from…

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3.5 Million Books 1800-2015: GDELT Processes Internet Archive and HathiTrust Book Archives and Available In Google BigQuery

Today we are enormously excited to announce that more than 3.5 million digitized books stretching back two centuries, encompassing the…

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BBVA Paper on Social Unrest Dynamics and State Response

The research staff at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit have produced another series of captivating risk visuals, this…