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Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial – Part 2

The first part of this tutorial walked through the process of creating maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON…

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Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial

This tutorial describes how to create your first maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON feeds. NOTE – this…

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Mapping Protest, Unrest, and Cyber Narratives

The fifth in our series of geographic visualizations explores the geography of discussion of protests (orange), cyber (purple) and unrest…

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Mapping General Discrimination and LGBT Discourse

The fourth in our series of geographic visualizations explores the geography of LGBT-related discussion (blue) and discrimination (orange) over the…

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GDELT GKG GeoJSON Files Available

For those who want to create their own interactive GDELT maps in CartoDB like the three we've unveiled thus far…

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Mapping Food/Water Security, Transportation, and Health/Disease

As the third map in our new series of geographic visualizations of GDELT, we're excited to unveil a topical map…

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Mapping the World's Happiest and Saddest News in Realtime

Today we're incredibly excited to unveil the second of two maps showcasing the enormous power of the spatial information captured…

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An Interactive Realtime Map of the World's News

Today we're incredibly excited to unveil an interactive realtime map of the world's news, updated every hour, as seen through the…

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USASOC Futures Forum Presentation

Kalev will be presenting on GDELT at next week's United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Futures Forum.

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Slate French Translates Two GDELT Articles on Language

The French language edition of Slate translated two of Kalev's recent Foreign Policy columns on GDELT and the critical importance…

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Ben Parker: Bots Reading The News

Ben Parker of IRIN News posted this tweet examining the top themes identified by GDELT in global coverage of Burundi…

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Kalev to Present Closing Keynote at Data Summit

Kalev will be giving the closing keynote at Data Summit in New York City running May 11-13, 2015. Learn More.

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News vs Social Media in Climate Change Coverage

This paper by Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Nicholas Diakopoulos, and Karl Aberer explores coverage of climate change through the lens of mainstream news media…

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IRIN News: Burundi News Tone Part 2

IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph tone variable once again to plot the total volume of news coverage monitored…

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BBVA Geo World Conflict & Social Unrest April 2015

This past September the research staff in Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)’s Cross-Country Emerging Markets Unit (BBVA is the second-largest bank in Spain) produced…

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Multilingual Source-Country Crossreferencing Dataset

In November of last year we released a crossreference dataset estimating the country of origin for all major English-language news outlets…

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Mapping 24 Hours in the Life of GDELT

Felipe Hoffa, Developer Advocate on big data at Google, put together this fantastic tutorial creating a heatmap of a day in…

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"Digital Jedis" Responding to Nepal

Patrick Meier wrote this great piece for PCDN titled "A Force for Good: How Digital Jedis are Responding to the…

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Audio and Transcript of Chatham House Speech

An audio recording of Kalev's invited speech at Chatham House is now available below, click on the Audio tab directly…

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IRIN News: Nepal Earthquake Coverage Bias

IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph to visually demonstrate the bias in international coverage of major natural disasters,…

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IRIN News: Burundi News Tone

IRIN News used the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph tone variable to plot the average positive/negative "tone" of global news coverage…

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Nepal Earthquake: Realtime Disaster Cataloging

As with Typhoon Ruby and Cyclone Pam, GDELT is once again collaborating with OCHA, STBF, MicroMappers, and QCRI, this time to…

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Kalev Speaks at Chatham House

Kalev spoke on Friday at Chatham House in London on “Using Big Data to Understand Global Conflict”, exploring how GDELT is being…

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Library of Congress Blog Post on Mass Translation

Kalev’s latest guest post for the Library of Congress’ The Signal blog is “Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World…