• The GDELT Project (http://gdeltproject.org/) is a realtime index over global human society, inventorying the world’s events, emotions, and narratives as they happen. GDELT live-translates information across 65 languages and identifies the planet’s events, counts, quotes, people, organizations, locations, 4,500 emotions and themes, imagery, video, and social posts, creating a massive realtime global graph. In this session, learn what it looks like to conduct data analytics at a truly planetary scale.

    Speaker

    Kalev Leetaru — Founder, GDELT Project

    About the Speaker

    Founder

    Kalev H. Leetaru founded and leads the GDELT Project, which monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news media in over 100 languages in realtime and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, emotions, narratives and events driving global society, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world. More…