Title: Using The Cloud & AI To Watch, Visualize And Forecast The World In Realtime: Constructing Planetary-Scale Knowledge Graphs
Speaker: Dr. Kalev H. Leetaru
Abstract
The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/) is one of the
largest open datasets for understanding global human society,
totaling more than 3.2 trillion datapoints spanning 200 years in
152 languages. From mapping global conflict and modeling global
narratives to providing the data behind one of the earliest
alerts of the COVID-19 pandemic, GDELT explores how we can use
data to let us see the world through the eyes of others and even
forecast the future, capturing the realtime heartbeat of the
planet we call home. What does it look like to analyze, visualize
and even forecast the world in realtime through the eyes of the
cloud's vast array of AI and analytic offerings, from sampling
billions of news articles through Google's Natural Language API
to cataloging half a billion images through Cloud Vision to
watching a decade of television news with Cloud Video and
annotating billions of words of speech through Cloud Speech to
Text? From visual search to misinformation research to
planetary-scale semantic and visual analysis, what does it look
like to analyze the global news landscape through the eyes of
today's cloud AI and how does one transform the resulting vast
archives of JSON annotations into actionable insights and look
across the myriad resulting planetary-scale knowledge graphs?
Slides
Bio
Dr. Kalev Hannes Leetaru - One of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100
Global Thinkers of 2013, Kalev is a Senior Fellow at the Auburn
University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security and a member of its
Counterterrorism and Intelligence Task Force and a Google Developer
Expert for Google Cloud Platform. From 2013-2014 he was the Yahoo!
Fellow in Residence of International Values, Communications Technology
& the Global Internet at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service, where he was also an Adjunct Assistant
Professor, as well as a Council Member of the World Economic Forum's
Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government. His work has been
profiled in Nature, the New York Times, The Economist, BBC, Discovery
Channel and the presses of more than 100 nations. In 2011 The
Economist selected his Culturomics 2.0 study as one of just five
science discoveries deemed the most significant developments of 2011.
Kalev's work focuses on how innovative applications of the world's
largest datasets, computing platforms, algorithms and mind-sets can
reimagine the way we understand and interact with our global world.
More on his latest projects can be found on his website at
https://www.kalevleetaru.com/ or https://blog.gdeltproject.org