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Making Of: Mapping Three Months of Poaching, Drones, and Cyber

Despite being up less than 12 hours, we've already been getting some great feedback on our latest map series, which…

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Announcing Our First API: GKG GeoJSON!

Today we're incredibly excited to announce the official debut of our new GDELT API suite, with our very first API…

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Mapping GDELT in CartoDB: A Tutorial

This tutorial describes how to create your first maps in CartoDB using the GDELT GKG GeoJSON feeds. NOTE – this…

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GDELT GKG GeoJSON Files Available

For those who want to create their own interactive GDELT maps in CartoDB like the three we've unveiled thus far…

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Mapping the World's Happiest and Saddest News in Realtime

Today we're incredibly excited to unveil the second of two maps showcasing the enormous power of the spatial information captured…

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GDELT 2.0: Our Global World in Realtime

We are enormously excited to announce today the unveiling of the future of GDELT.  GDELT 2.0 debuts what we believe…

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GDELT Translingual: Translating the Planet

With the debut of GDELT 2.0 we are incredibly excited and proud to announce the public debut of a system…

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Don't Blame CNN for the Ebola Panic

Kalev's latest column for Foreign Policy magazine explores how American domestic news media has covered the Ebola outbreak over the…

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Our global dreams and fears: News as emotion

Kalev’s guest post for the Knight Blog titled “Our global dreams and fears: News as emotion” explores the latest addition…

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Visualizing the Emotions of American Television News

Today we announce the release of an incredibly exciting new dataset: all 540,000 hours of English-language news broadcasts monitored by…

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Leader Speeches: Assad vs American Presidents

Ever since the unveiling of the GKG 2.0 file format last month, we've been inundated with requests to expand GDELT…

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Introducing GKG 2.0 – The Next Generation of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph

We are incredibly excited to announce the official release of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) Version 2.0.  This marks…