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…
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…