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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Al Jazeera Interview on Ebola Coverage
Kalev appears on the latest episode of Al Jazeera's "Listening Post" show discussing media coverage of the Ebola outbreak and…
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”…
A Meeting in Paris
Kalev flew into Paris on Friday and was on the ground for just over 24 hours before returning to the US. More…
US Federal Reserve Chief Data Officer Speaker Series
Kalev spoke at the United States Federal Reserve Board of Governors as part of its Office of the Chief Data…
Carnegie Council / FES Meeting on Protests
Kalev spoke at "'Conflict' or 'Protest': Governments' approach impacts their pursuit of stability, peace and justice", an expert group meeting…
South Korea's "This Morning" on eFM 101.3
Kalev was interviewed for South Korea's "This Morning" show on eFM 101.3, the number one foreign language radio station in the…
China Central Television (CCTV) Interview
Kalev was interviewed for China Central Television (CCTV) about his GDELT Project and how it uncovered the earliest glimmers of…
Internet Archive Annual Library Leaders Forum
Kalev's work to "reimagine" the book by extracting the images from 600 million digitized book pages dating back 500 years from…
DOD Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment Conference: A New Information Paradigm
Kalev presented on the GDELT Project and its applications for global realtime dashboarding and situational awareness at the 8th Annual Strategic…
Internet Archive Annual Gala: The Emotions of Television
At the Internet Archive's Annual Gala last year, Kalev's collaboration with Roger MacDonald and the Archive's Television News Archive was…
Filming for the History Channel
Kalev was filming today for an incredibly exciting new documentary to be aired on the History Channel/H2 in Spring 2015! We…