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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…