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…
Mapping Violence and Protests in Nigeria
As the world's media outlets run round-the-clock coverage of masked soldiers facing off against besieged Ukrainian military outposts in Crimea,…
Mapping Spatial Trends in Violence in Afghanistan Using GIS
As GDELT is increasingly finding pilot use in operational trend detection contexts, we have been receiving a growing number of…
R package GDELTtools v1.2 released
GDELTtools is a package for the R statistical package that makes it easy to download all or some of the…
Pew Report: Digital Life in 2025
Kalev was one of the experts asked to provide his views on the future of the internet for Pew Research's…
Using GDELT for Atrocity Early Warning
The rising use of GDELT in contexts such as conflict early warning and emerging atrocities forecasting brings with it the…
LA Times Features SyFy Reality Series Opposite Worlds
GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru created the revolutionary sentiment analysis technology behind the SyFy channel's flagship new reality series, Opposite Worlds, which…
The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Kalev’s Culturomics 2.0 research is featured in Patrick Tucker's new book, "The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That…
A Visualization of Protests in the Americas, 2007-2013
The global economic downturn, which began roughly in 2007, has sparked new debates on the future of global capitalism around…
New GDELT server hits 33,000 downloads in first week!
We are incredibly honored and excited to announce that in just its first week of existence, the new GDELT download…
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Annual Conference
Kalev spoke at the 2014 National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) annual conference in Philadelphia along with Evan Sandhaus, Director…
Using Big Data to map Ukraine's protest violence
A new map created for Foreign Policy magazine using GDELT offers a glimpse of what big data can tell us…
CRL Webinar on the Future of the Library and Data Mining
Kalev spoke alongside Robert Scott, head of the Digital Humanities Center at the Columbia University Library, at the Center for…
New GDELT World Leaders Index
UPDATE 2/6/2016: We are still publishing these files daily, but the list of world leaders is not currently being updated…
Kalev's Research Opens New O'Reilly Book
Kalev's Culturomics 2.0 research opens the new O'Reilly book "Ask Measure Learn: Using Social Media Analytics to Understand and Influence…
Technorati Interview About SyFy Opposite Worlds
Technorati ran a wide-ranging interview with GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru and executive producer JD Roth (the producer of "Beauty &…
Kalev Featured in BBC "Living Online" Episode
Kalev's Global Twitter Heartbeat study has been widely featured in the world's media, was ranked by Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab…
GDELT has a new home!
Welcome to the new official website of the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project, now at www.gdeltproject.org!…
GDELT Global Knowledge Graph
We are tremendously excited to announce the debut of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG), which expands GDELT’s ability to…
Mapping the Global Conversation: A Network Visual of the World
What happens when you take six months of news coverage from around the world and compile a list of every…
Washington Post Features Global Twitter Heartbeat as Top Map
The Washington Post recently ran a special feature entitled "40 more maps that explain the world" in which it "searched…
New SyFy Reality Series Opposite Worlds Continues to Set Records
The SyFy channel's flagship new reality series, Opposite Worlds, monitors the live Twitter discourse around the show 24/7 to create…
Half a Billion Views to 2013's Biggest Stories
All 675 million references to the more than 69 million events captured by GDELT for 2012-2013 were scanned for global…
New GDELT Daily Trend Reports
UPDATE 2/6/2016: We are still publishing these files daily, but the list of world leaders is not currently being updated…