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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…

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QCRI Study: News Geography and Major Determinants of News Coverage

Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An of the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) put together this fantastic paper titled "Understanding News…

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Announcing GDELT’s New “Tools for Journalists” Initiative

UPDATE 5/23/2015: In discussion with all of the users of this program, we've found that all of you have now migrated…

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GigaOM Covers GDELT 2.0

Derrick Harris of GigaOM wrote this fantastic article about the debut of GDELT 2.0 and GDELT Translingual!  For those attending GigaOM…

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GDELT 2.0: Our Global World in Realtime

We are enormously excited to announce today the unveiling of the future of GDELT.  GDELT 2.0 debuts what we believe…

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GDELT Translingual: Translating the Planet

With the debut of GDELT 2.0 we are incredibly excited and proud to announce the public debut of a system…

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GDELT+BigQuery: Understanding the World with SQL

Check out this amazing video created by Felipe Hoffa, Developer Advocate on big data at Google, that showcases how GDELT is…

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Creating Your Own GDELT Dashboard Map With CartoDB

Imagine a map that uses computers to “read” news reports from across the entire world each day, identifying the events…

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Bavarian Broadcasting Science Episode Features GDELT

Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting – BR) features GDELT on their science episode this week.  The section on GDELT (with German…

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Automatic Source Location Contextualization for Geocoding Local News

As we gear up for the imminent debut of GDELT 2.0, we are tremendously excited to announce a transformative new…

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NDIA 2015 Human Systems Conference

Kalev and Chris Rewerts from the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) will be presenting at the National Defense…

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Kalev to Present Opening Keynote at NFAIS

We are incredibly excited and honored to announce that Kalev will be presenting the opening keynote of the National Federation of…

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AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting: Big Data & Human Rights: Video

Kalev spoke at the 2015 AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting titled “Big Data & Human Rights” on the GDELT…

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Digital Memory VI: Estonian National Library

Kalev presented today at the Digital Memory VI international conference "Web Archiving: Preserving the History of Data-Driven Society" at the…

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Timelines of Constitutional Discourse

GDELT isn't just about understanding global news – it is about understanding and contextualizing our global society.  From academic literature…

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ML-SENTICON's 5 Language Editions Now Available in GCAM

Over the last few weeks we've added the Spanish adaptation of ANEW and Hedonometer's Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian,…

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Global Second Order Administrative Divisions Now Available From GAUL

Over the past year we've been hearing from more and more of you that you need to be able to…

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GDELT and Google BigQuery: Understanding the World

Take a look at this incredible teaser video Google put together showcasing how GDELT makes use of the enormous power…

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Paper Explores Change Point Detection and Multi-Level Analysis

Researchers Swetha Keertipati, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, and Martin Purvis, all of the University of Otago in Dunedin,…

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Hedonometer's 12 Language Editions Now Available in GCAM

Just last week we announced the availability of the Spanish adaptation of ANEW in GCAM, marking our first foray into scoring the…

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New York Times Feature on SMA Work

Today's edition of the New York Times features an article on research convened by the Department of Defense's Strategic Multilayer Assessment…