Mapping a Quarter Century of Protests Using GDELT
Foreign Policy ran a front-page story by Dana Stuster featuring the global and Egyptian protest maps created by John Beieler…
Lipari School on Computational Social Science
Kalev taught at the Lipari School on Computational Social Science in Italy from July 20 – July 27th, focusing on how…
USAID Workshop on Early Warning about Mass Atrocities Against Civilians
Kalev presented on how "big data" is reshaping our ability to forecast future mass atrocities as part of the USAID…
Visualizing Global GDELT Coverage
Looking at the map of global protests in 2013 as captured in GDELT that John Beieler created, I was struck…
CRL Opening Keynote: Pioneers in Mining Electronic News for Research
Kalev presented the opening keynote for the Center for Research Library's (CRL)'s Pioneers in Mining Electronic News for Research summit…
World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group
Kalev presented today to the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group.
DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Economic Science Workshop
Kalev was an invited discussant at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Economic Science Workshop.
CNBC's Big Data Download Show Features GDELT
CNBC television ran a segment on GDELT for its Big Data Download program titled "An Ambitious Project to Track Global…
TEDxUIUC: What Can Big Data Do For You?
Kalev spoke at TEDxUIUC on "What Can Big Data Do For You?" in how big data is reshaping every discipline.
New Scientist Magazine Maps the Syrian Civil War
Peter Aldhous of New Scientist Magazine put together this impressive interactive map of the Syrian civil war that breaks the…
The Sphere of Influence and Declassification Engine Projects
Led by Matthew Connelly at Columbia University, the Declassification Engine project is a wide-ranging effort involving "historians, journalists, legal scholars,…
Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter
This collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory debuted the first-ever analysis of…
Stanford University / USIP Blogs & Bullets Workshop on Syria
Kalev presented at the Stanford University / United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Blogs & Bullets Workshop on Syria.
GDELT: a big data history of life, the universe and everything
The Guardian introduces GDELT as "the ultimate big database – and an amazing tool for data journalists" and extols its…
Jay Yonamine's Forecasting Future Violence in Afghanistan
Jay Yonamine of Penn State used GDELT in his doctoral dissertation to explore how the spatial resolution of GDELT can…
Alex Hanna's Egyptian Timeline
Alex Hanna at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made this great timeline showing the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the various actor…
The Last 200 Million Things That Happened in the World
Foreign Policy magazine writes the first mainstream news article introducing GDELT to the world! Read the Full Article in Foreign…
David Masad's Python Visualizations
David Masad of George Mason University put together this great tutorial demonstrating how to replicate some of Rolf Fredheim's R-based visualizations for…
Rolf Fredheim's Visualization Tutorial
Rolf Fredheim of Cambridge University put together a fantastic assortment of basic analyses and some sophisticated visualizations of GDELT, including…
Rolf Fredheim's Russia Network Visualizations
Rolf Fredheim of Cambridge University created this visually stunning series of network displays of Russia's interactions with the world over…
GDELT ISA Paper
The debut paper on GDELT was presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) meeting. Read the Full Paper.
Dissertation: Can We Forecast Conflict?
Kalev's doctoral dissertation was successfully defended in March 2013 at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information…
University of Texas at Austin iSchool Research Colloquium
Kalev gave an invited speech on "Using Big Data To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and…
University of Maryland iSchool Research Colloquium
Kalev gave an invited speech on "Using Big Data To Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting…