GDELT Cited In Gentzkow Interview
Clark Medal winner Matthew Gentzkow cites GDELT in his interview out today with Nieman Lab. Read the Full Interview.
Kalev Speaks at Data Community DC
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke to a packed house at Data Community DC's April meeting on his lessons learned from…
Georgetown University Feature – The Wizard of Big Data
Georgetown University profiled GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru in a special interactive feature titled "The Wizard of Big Data." Read the…
GDELT At GEOINT 2014 on GEOINT Foreword Panel
We were incredibly honored to present an overview of GDELT today on the GEOINT Foreward Panel on Human Geography at GEOINT…
Paper Explores Bilateral and Multilateral Causal Events in GDELT
Researchers at Tapjoy and the University of Virginia Department of Sociology used GDELT for their SBP data challenge paper "Discovering Bilateral…
SBP 2014 Grand Data Challenge Winner
Its always incredibly exciting to see all of the different ways that GDELT is being applied and it is especially…
From Big Data to Global Diplomacy: Today and Tomorrow
Today Kalev's Yahoo! Conference was held Georgetown University, titled "From Big Data to Global Diplomacy: Today and Tomorrow" and featuring presentations…
Working with GDELT in Python: A Quick Tutorial
Python has become an increasingly popular language for rapidly working with large datasets. James Houghton has a great quick tutorial…
Wall Street Journal Discussion of Twitter Geolocation
GDELT Creator Kalev Leetaru is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing the geolocation "arms race" and the emerging focus on the…
TimeMapper: Rwanda
With today being the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, we've received a number of requests for visualizations and…
Understanding Megacities
Megacities will play an outsized role in global politics and national stability over the coming decades with some estimates suggesting…
Frank 2014: Forecasting Society from the Global Heartbeat
Kalev spoke at Frank 2014 at the University of Florida. Watch The Video.
Networking The World’s Newsmakers
Perhaps one of the GDELT Analysis Service’s most eagerly-awaited new visualizations is its Global Knowledge Graph Network Visualizer, which allows…
Geographic Networks: Contextualizing Relationships in Space
Perhaps the most famous visualizations from Culturomics 2.0 were the geographic networks that illustrated how the geography of the world…
Timelines of Countries and of Themes
One of the first requests from early previews of the Timeline Visualization tool was the ability to plot countries and…
Timelining Tone: Visualizing Emotional Timelines
Emotion has become an increasingly powerful lens through which to explore the world, as a growing literature demonstrates the ability…
Visualizing the Timelines of Conflict
The concept of time is at once one of the most basic dimensions through which to understand and visualize conflict,…
Heatmapping Hotspots: The New Heatmapper Visualization
One of the most-requested features for the new GDELT Analytics Service has been the addition of GIS-friendly export file formats…
Expediting Extraction and Exporting: GDELT Event and GKG Exporter Tools
The massive size of GDELT’s data archives can make it difficult to extract just the subset of data you need…
Introducing the GDELT Analysis Service
Today we are extraordinarily excited to announce a spectacular new addition to the GDELT family: the GDELT Analysis Service! This…
TimeMapper: Visualize The Pulse of Our Global World
One of the most exciting announcements that will be coming shortly to GDELT is a fundamental new way of working…
Washington Post Features GDELT's World Leader Word Clouds
The Washington Post featured GDELT's new gallery of "world leader word clouds", including a great analysis by reporter Adam Taylor…
New York Times features GDELT
The New York Times' Sunday print edition featured a whole paragraph about GDELT and how it is powering the study…
Making a World Leader “Word Cloud”
A key focus of GDELT in 2014 is on how to make its incredibly vast and rich datasets easier to…