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Library of Congress Interview: The World As Seen Through Books

Kalev was recently interviewed by Erin Engle for the Library of Congress' The Signal blog about his analysis of the…

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Is America Bored With Election 2016 Already?

Kalev's new piece for the Huffington Post explores the current state of television coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign leading up to…

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Donald Trump's Changing Media Fortunes

Kalev's collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to track changing television coverage of the 2016 US presidential candidates…

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Network Visualization of Global Refugee Flows

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes, mapping the global flow of refugees through creating geographic networks from GDELT, includes several visualizations…

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Mapping The Global Flow of Refugees Through News Coverage

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores creating geographic networks tracing the global flow of refugees using network co-occurrence analysis to…

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How Massive News Mining Can Help Us Understand European Protest Trends

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the last 36 years of protest trends in Europe, creating a "protest intensity" timeline…

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Do Big Data Results Depend On What Data We Look At?

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the degree to which the results we get from "big data" are truly reflective…

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Highlights Of Estonian ICT Day At The World Bank And The Future Of E-Government

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes summaries the highlights of the "Estonian ICT Day" conference at the World Bank and its…

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How Social Media Is Reshaping Our Understanding Of Conflict And How It Is Blinding Us

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores the Yemen-Saudi Arabia conflict through the eyes of Twitter, tracing with the help of…

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Assessing Turkey's Physical Stability And Societal "Mood"

Kalev's latest piece for Forbes explores how GDELT can be used to assess Turkey's physical stability using the GDELT Event…

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The World As Seen Through Books: Comparing the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books Ngrams Collections

With the proliferation of cheap high-resolution digital imaging hardware and falling storage costs, mass digitization initiatives have gone mainstream, bringing…

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GDELT Makes Appearance at #PeaceHackDC

We're excited that GDELT made an appearance at the #PeaceHackDC hackathon and thrilled that the winning project proposal involves using GDELT to track…

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Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Finalist

Out of 800 submissions to the most recent Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant call, GDELT was one of just 35…

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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…