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Hague Centre for Strategic Studies Releases Two Reports Using GDELT

The Hague Center for Strategic Studies recently released two reports that use GDELT to measure global conflict and cooperation, Balancing…

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Nextgov ViewCast: Keeping Pace With Big Data

Kalev spoke alongside Micheline Casey, Chief Data Officer of the United States Federal Reserve Board on Atlantic Media's Nextgov's viewcast titled…

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GDELT Celebrates 1 Million Downloads!

Its been six months since GDELT opened in its new home, supported by Google Ideas, and what an incredible six…

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Google Cloud Platform Blog on Patterns of World History Study

Felipe Hoffa wrote this great post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog with more technical detail on how BigQuery enabled…

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GigaOM Covers GDELT Patterns of World History Study

Derrick Harris of GigaOM covered the GDELT "Patterns of World History" study in this fantastic article. Read the Full Article.

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Towards Psychohistory: Uncovering the Patterns of World History with Google BigQuery

Two months ago we unveiled in Google BigQuery access to the entire quarter-billion-record GDELT Event Database, which monitors the world’s…

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Wilson Quarterly Covers GDELT

The Wilson Quarterly covers GDELT in an article by Caitlin Moniz titled "What a Moneyball Style Analysis Tells Us About…

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Science at the United States – Africa Leader's Summit at the National Press Club

GDELT creator Kalev H. Leetaru spoke today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC at the "Science at the…

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Kalev Advises New Columbia University Applied Analytics Program

Kalev spent the day at Columbia University advising its new Applied Analytics program, led by Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo…

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Op-Ed on Reimagining Innovation in Government

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru wrote an op-ed for the Orange County Register that reimagines what innovation should look like for…

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The Emotion of Twitter as the Future of Interactive Television

The SyFy channel’s highest-rated unscripted series Face Off makes use of the next generation of Kalev’s Twitter research, used this past…

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Mapping A World in Motion: A Daily Dashboard of Global Conflict

(CLICK TO OPEN MAP)Imagine a map that uses computers to “read” news reports from across the entire world each day,…

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GDELT At OSCON 2014

InfiniDB's Chief Technology Officer, Jim Tommaney, demonstrated querying and analyzing the complete GDELT event database running in their InfiniDB database platform…

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Vice's Motherboard Covers GDELT

Ben Makuch of Vice's Motherboard wrote this great article about how GDELT is reshaping how we monitor and understand the…

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Wilson Center Event on Data Journalism and Policymaking

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru will be speaking on July 30th alongside Alexander Howard at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC…

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Twitter Research to Power Audience Interaction with SyFy's Face Off Series

The SyFy channel's highest-rated unscripted series Face Off will use the next generation of Kalev's Twitter research, used this past…

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GDELT Now on Data.gov!

We are excited to announce that GDELT is now available on data.gov, courtesy of the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD)…

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Kojo Nnamdi Show Discussion on Sentiment Mining

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru was part of a panel this week on the Kojo Nnamdi Show talking about the state…

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Mashable Discussion of ISIS Social Media

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru is quoted in a Mashable article on ISIS's evolving use of "social media as an actual…

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Kalev Named World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member

We are incredibly honored and excited to announce that GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru has been named as a  Council Member…

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2014 National Academies NAKFI Conference: Collective Behavior

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru will be attending the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference "Collective Behavior: From Cells…

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National Academies Keck Grants on Government Dashboards and Learning in Medicine

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru will be in Chicago on August 22nd for the mid-cycle progress update meeting for grant awardees…

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Mapping Ebola Using GDELT's GKG

Reuters published a new infographic on Monday that uses World Health Organization data to map the spread of the ebola…

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Visualizing GDELT In Tableau Using BigQuery

Julius Concepion shows off a screen capture visualizing the entire quarter-billion-record GDELT event database in realtime using Tableau and Google's…