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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…

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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…