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GDELT Makes Appearance at BigDataCampLA

Well-known big data trainer and consultant Lynn Langit used GDELT to demonstrate Google's BigQuery database platform in her presentation at…

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GDELT Makes Appearance at DevoxxUK

Javier Ramirez, one of the founders of Teowaki, and a Google Developers Expert, gave a presentation at DevoxxUK that featured an example of…

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InfiniDB Demos GDELT at OSCON

InfiniDB announced today that its Chief Technology Officer, Jim Tommaney, will be demonstrating querying and analyzing the complete GDELT event…

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GDELT Makes Appearance at Google I/O 2014 Developer Conference

Felipe Hoffa and Jordan Tigani's talk at Google I/O 2014 titled "Predicting the future with the Google Cloud Platform" gives…

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ACM WEBSCI2014 Data Challenge Winner

From the Global Twitter Heartbeat to the SyFy Opposite Worlds Show to the non-Western world (and many more to be announced shortly) the GDELT Project…

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Predicting Violence in Sudan for Humanitarian Relief

This paper from the Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) 2014 conference builds a series of models using GDELT…

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Using Global Media Tone for Leadership Assessment of Assad and Putin

Kalev's latest Foreign Policy column explores how the emotional "tone" of global news coverage of Syria's Assad and Russia's Putin…

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Columbia Journalism School Studies Media Coverage of Syrian Conflict Using GDELT

Students at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism  created this fantastic in-depth and interactive look at how the global news…

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GDELT Featured in May Roundup of Google Cloud Blog

The May 2014 roundup of the Google Cloud Blog prominently mentions GDELT's availability in Google's BigQuery database platform! Read the…

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Virginia Tech Paper Explores Forecasting Domestic Political Crises Using GDELT

Researchers at Virginia Tech used GDELT to explore forecasting of domestic political crises using subgraph mining. Read the Full Paper.

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Mapping the Syrian Conflict

Last week Palantir released the visualization below that it produced in collaboration with the Carter Center mapping conflict events in…

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West Point Study Explores GDELT for Decision Making

A new study published by researchers at the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West…

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Wired Opinion Piece on the Future of Sentiment Mining

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru recently wrote an opinion piece for Wired on the state of sentiment mining, where it is…

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New GDELT Website Debuts!

We're incredibly excited to unveil the beautiful  new GDELT Project website to you!   The new site does a vastly…

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Bloomberg Covers GDELT in "Saving the World"

GDELT gets a prominent mention in a special Bloomberg feature on big data titled "Saving the World? How Big Data…

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GDELT: World's largest event dataset now publicly available in Google BigQuery

We are phenomenally excited to announce that the entire quarter-billion-record GDELT Event Database is now available as a public dataset…

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Computing on the Entire Planet From the Cloud: GDELT Moves to Google Cloud Platform

We are incredibly excited to announce a transformative new chapter in GDELT’s evolution – its move to Google Cloud Platform…

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GDELT Now in a Museum Near You via NOAA’s Science on a Sphere!

Imagine an actual physical 6-foot-diameter globe floating before your very eyes, displaying every imaginable dataset about our planet. Created by…

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Did the Arab Spring Really Spark a Wave of Global Protests?

Kalev's latest Foreign Policy columns explores global protest activity over the last 35 years, finding that the Arab Spring touched…

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Kalev Speaks at Inaugural Wharton DC Innovation Summit

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke at the inaugural Wharton DC Innovation Summit here in Washington on how big data is…

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Could we predict the kidnapping of Nigerian girls?

This article by Harvard NTL, which ran the USAID / Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention, discusses how the…

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Refocusing Intelligence on Analysis

Kalev's latest Foreign Policy column discusses the need to refocus the intelligence process on analysis rather than collection – how…

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Kalev Speaks at National Defense University Forum

GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke at National Defense University today at a forum organized by the Center for Technology and…

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FiveThirtyEight Explores Nigerian Kidnapping Trends Using GDELT

Mona Chalabi over at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight wrote this great timeline analysis of kidnappings in Nigeria using GDELT: Read the…