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Interview with Wired Magazine: Big Data and the Death of the Theorist

In December 2012 while in London, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru spoke with Ian Steadman of Wired Magazine about the future…

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On the Interpretability of Law

An implicit element of many theories of constitutional enforcement is the degree to which those subject to constitutional law can…

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New Routledge Book: Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst

Kalev's latest book is now available from Routledge, titled Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst: An Introduction to the…

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Council on Foreign Relations Workshop on Social Media and Conflict Prevention

In December 2012, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Washington DC to speak at the Council on Foreign Relations Workshop…

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Big Data Analytics 2012 in London

In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to London to speak at Big Data Analytics 2012, the United Kingdom's…

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United Kingdom Science & Technology Facilities Council Big Data Conference

In December 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Daresbury in the United Kingdom to present at the joint SGI…

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UCI Evoke Laboratory Presentation

Kalev gave an invited presentation on "Using Big Data to Understand the World Around Us: Towards Realtime Modeling, Monitoring, and Forecasting…

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National Academies Keck Futures Initiative

In November 2012 GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru was selected to participate in the 2012 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, The…

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Mapping the Civil War Through HathiTrust's One Billion Pages of Books

In a collaboration with noted Civil War historian Vernon Burton, Kalev mapped the geography of the Civil War discourse through…

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Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: Making Of

In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…

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Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: US Presidential Election

In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…

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Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: Hurricane Sandy

In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…

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Global Twitter Heartbeat Project: PufferSphere

In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory we debuted the first-ever…

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2012 Winner of HPCWire Editor's Choice Edge HPC Award

Kalev's 2012 collaboration with supercomputer manufacturer SGI to create the first geographic historical visualization of Wikipedia's view of the world…

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Global Twitter Heartbeat Project

In a collaboration with SGI and the University of Illinois' CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory Kalev debuted the first-ever realtime…

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ICCM Talk at World Bank on Realtime Automated Risk Forecasting

In October 2012, GDELT creator Kalev Leetaru traveled to Washington DC to speak at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers…

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IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012

Kalev presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on eScience, "Towards HPC for the Digital Humanities, Arts, and Social…

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Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia

The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given…

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CyberGIS Approach to Digital Humanities and Social Sciences

Kalev and Eric Shook gave the featured Showcase Presentation at The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS, titled "A CyberGIS Approach…

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Spatial Media Analysis for Remote Assessment

This study, with Charles Ehlschlaeger, Jeffrey Burkhalter and Marina Drigo, was presented at The First International Conference On Space, Time, and CyberGIS….

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Wikipedia Study Showcased on NOAA Science on a Sphere

The World According to Wikipedia, a collaboration with SGI and their new UV2 supercomputer to visualize Wikipedia's view of world…

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Global OSINT Monitoring for Fragility Warning

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) developed during World War II and the Cold War as a surrogate for leadership analysis, created…

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The World According to Wikipedia: Intensity

SGI's new UV2 supercomputer, scalable to 64TB of RAM, was used to visualize world history 1800-2012 captured by Wikipedia. More…

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The World According to Wikipedia: Tone

SGI's new UV2 supercomputer, scalable to 64TB of RAM, was used to visualize world history 1800-2012 captured by Wikipedia. More…