A new map created for Foreign Policy magazine using GDELT offers a glimpse of what big data can tell us of the unrest in Ukraine through the eyes of the world's news media. Contrary to the image that has emerged in Western media centering on a single square occupied in the capital city, we see instead a conflict that reaches to the farthest corners of a nation, not only between the police and protesters in Kiev, but in protests that have spread to other cities. In short, big data allows us for the first time to map quantitatively how large-scale societal unrest brings a nation together, even as it tears it apart.

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