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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2015 Computerworld Data+ Editors’ Choice Award Winner
We are enormously excited, honored, and humbled to have been selected as one of the 2015 Computerworld Data+ Editors’ Choice Award…
Kalev to Present at Internet Archive Library Leaders Forum 2015
Kalev will be presenting on his work exploring the Internet Archive's vast data collections for research and his collaborations with the…
Which Republican Debate Candidate Went The Most Viral?
Roger MacDonald, Director the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, created this fantastic visualization of what percent of the subsequent rebroadcasts…
Who’s Really Winning the Media Wars in the 2016 Campaign?
A new post on the Internet Archive's blog surveys our latest collaborations with the Internet Archive around exploring media and…
Who Really Won the First Republican Debate?
This past July we used audio fingerprinting technology from the Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio…
The Incredibly Short Lifespan of an Online News Article
A year ago this past Friday we announced a new collaboration with the Internet Archive to preserve the world's online journalism….
Tracking Television Coverage of the 2016 Campaign
In collaboration with The Atlantic and using the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, this new visualization allows you to track…
High Resolution Animated Twitterverse Map 2012-2014
Kalev's latest article, "Who's Doing the Talking on Twitter?", was published in The Atlantic yesterday. The article includes an animated GIF movie…
A Zoomable Map of The Twitterverse 2012-2014
There wasn't room to include the map below in "Who's Doing the Talking on Twitter?", out in The Atlantic today, but…
Who’s Doing the Talking on Twitter?
Kalev's latest study explores the evolution of Twitter over the last three years, from January 2012 to December 2014 and…
Is Donald Trump Really Dominating Media Coverage?
Kalev's latest study, published this afternoon in The Guardian's Data Blog, explores how vastly different of a picture you get of…