Kalev H. Leetaru is Assistant Director for Text and Digital Media Analytics at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois and Center Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
His award-winning work centers on the application of high performance computing to grand challenge problems using news and open sources intelligence. He holds three US patents and more than 50 University Invention Disclosures and has been an invited speaker, panelist, and discussant at venues including the Library of Congress, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, while his work has been profiled in venues as diverse as Nature, the New York Times, BBC, Discovery Channel, The Atlantic, Fortune Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, MSNBC, Que Leer, La Stampa, US News & World Report, Politico, Huffington Post, Library Quarterly, AAPG Explorer, and the American Council on Education's The Presidency, along with media outlets in more than 100 countries
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| Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space |
Using an archive of 100 million global news articles spanning a quarter-century, a 2.4 petabyte network of 10 billion people, places, and things, and 100 trillion relationships are used to forecast the Arab Spring, pinpoint Bin Laden's location, and visualize human society's evolution. Featured in Nature and covered in media across the world including BBC and Russia Today.
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