Kalev Leetaru

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A New Way To Read The Crisis in Greece

New and evolving analytics tools give us a sharper picture of the Greek debt crisis than we've ever had before.

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Tracking the Islamic State — With Words

The entire world is talking about ISIS. And we can use big data to find the message amid the clamoring voices.

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Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher?

Why looking at a map of news headlines could help us see critical patterns and trends in wildlife crime.

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Don’t Blame CNN for the Ebola Panic

If you crunch the data, the mainstream media has actually been pretty levelheaded.

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Why Big Data Missed the Early Warning Signs of Ebola

Hint: Ils ne parlent pas le français.

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Playing Nostradamus

Big data show that history does indeed repeat itself. What does that mean for foreign policymaking -- and tackling crises from Ukraine to Syria?

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Everybody Loves Bashar

Why does the world's media see Bashar al-Assad as invulnerable and Vladimir Putin on the wane?

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Did the Arab Spring Really Spark a Wave of Global Protests?

The world may look like it's roiling now, but the 1980s were far worse.

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About Kalev Leetaru

Kalev H. Leetaru is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and a council member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government. He created the GDELT Project and focuses on big data and global society.

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