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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…

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GigaOM Structure Data 2015 Speaker

Kalev will be joining an incredible list of speakers at the GigaOM Structure Data 2015 conference in New York City March…

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Typhoon Ruby: Realtime Aid Tracking Pilot with OCHA

In response to Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines, GDELT collaborated with Andrej Verity of the United Nations Office for the Coordination…

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Exploring GDELT Using Tableau and BigQuery

The latest version of Tableau offers direct integration with Google BigQuery, meaning you can leverage Tableau's incredibly powerful point-and-click visual analytics…

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BBVA Geo World Report: Second Half 2014

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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Library of Congress Blog On 500 Years of Book Images

Together with David Ayman Shamma, lead of the HCI Research Group at Yahoo! Labs and Scientific Liaison to Flickr, and…

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Spanish Edition of ANEW Now Available in GCAM

We're tremendously excited to announce our first foray into scoring the emotional undercurrents of the non-English world.  While it might…

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

Kalev will be speaking at the 2015 AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition Meeting titled "Big Data & Human Rights"…

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Pew Research Internet Project Report: The Future of Privacy

Kalev was one of the experts asked to provide his views on the future of the internet for Pew Research’s “Digital…

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GigaOM Excerpts of Pew Internet Privacy Report

Kalev's responses for the Pew Research Center's Internet Project report on The Future of Privacy were included in GigaOM's summary of…

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GDELT Cited in Patrick Meier's New Digital Humanitarians Book

Patrick Meier's new book, titled "Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response" tells "the compelling story of how…

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A Global Big Data Assessment of Public Attitudes Towards CCS

Just shy of a decade since their first father-and-son study exploring global media coverage of carbon sequestration and climate change, Kalev and…

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Three Months of 500 Years of Book Images

When not codifying the world's news, GDELT Creator Kalev Leetaru collaborated earlier this year with the Internet Archive and Flickr to extract…

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Paper Explores Inferring Polyadic Events With Poisson Tensor Factorization

Researchers Aaron Schein (University of Massachusetts Amherst), John Paisley (Columbia University), David Blei (Columbia University), and Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)…

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Over 100 New GKG Themes Added

You may have noticed the appearance over the last few weeks of over 100 new themes that we've added to the GDELT…

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Institute of International Finance Talk

Kalev spoke today at the Institute of International Finance about GDELT and the ways in which "big data" is reshaping…

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Infectious Disease Mapping and Early Warning with GDELT

The ebola outbreak of the past year has intensified interest in early warning and situational awareness mapping of infectious disease across the…

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Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center IV MOOC

We are excited to announce that GDELT has been accepted as a "client" of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center…

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Winners of Romanian BigData/DataScience Contest on GDELT

This past September the Big Data / Data Science Meetup in Cluj-Napoca, Romania held a workshop titled “How to think in MapReduce”…

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Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) Now Available in GCAM

We are excited to announce that the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) dimensions are now available in GCAM!  Produced…

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Google Developer Group DevFestDC 2014

Kalev presented today at the Google Developer Group DevFest conference in Washington DC, DevFestDC 2014 on how the GDELT project makes use…

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Announcing New Source-Country Crossreferencing Dataset

As GDELT is increasingly used to deeply explore the geography of the global media landscape,  we've been hearing from many of…

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Center for Global Development

Kalev gave the opening breakfast keynote at an event for the Center for Global Development, discussing how big data is reshaping our…

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National Academies NAKFI Conference: From Cells to Societies

Kalev participated in the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference “Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies” last week in Irvine,…