Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Here is a first glimpse at what whole-of-earth happiness mapping looks ...

“My interests lie in narrative,” says Kalev Leetaru, who started the project about 18 months ago and runs the operation alone. “How do we understand the world? How do we understand what’s happening ...

Kalev H. Leetaru is the Founder of the GDELT Project. His work with big data has fundamentally redefined how we think about information at scale and how we define the boundaries of the big data era.

The GDELT Project is a vast open-access tool that scours and live translates news media in 65 languages to quantify, describe and map broad societal trends worldwide. GDELT will harness data from even ...