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Lessons Learned From Planetary Scale News Crawling

Running a global crawling and processing infrastructure that monitors news outlets in nearly every country in over 65 languages is…

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Creating A Planetary Scale Open Dataset: Just How Big Is GDELT?

The GDELT Project encompasses an incredible array of datasets spanning the entire planet, reaching across 65 languages and making sense…

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The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) At 5 Months: 35 Billion URLs And Counting

Since the launch of GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) on March 2nd of this year, the dataset has rapidly evolved…

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Mapping The Geography Of Words Through A Year Of Global News

Having spent more than a decade mapping the world through the lens of textual geography, we've become fascinated with the…

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Mapping The Media: A Geographic Lookup Of GDELT's Sources

Given GDELT's incredibly unique ability to peer across the world's languages courtesy of its mass machine translation infrastructure, a common…

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Mapping The 2015-2018 Media Geography In One Line of SQL

In 2015 we created a map of the geography of the world's media as seen through a year of GDELT's…

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Geographic FeatureID To Common Name Crosswalk May 2018 Update

While we tend to think of geographic locations as having just one name, in reality they can have dozens or…

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Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) Inventory Sheet With Charset And Language Breakdown

NOTE (9/1/2019): A new version of this linguistic inventory sheet is available with better accuracy and coverage for all site…

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Announcing the GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG)

Today we announce the alpha release of a powerful new tool for understanding both global events and the narratives that…

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GDELT Analysis Emails Working Again

We rely on a major third party email infrastructure vendor to send outgoing emails from the GDELT Analysis site and…

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Dev Fest DC 2017

Kalev spoke at DevFest DC today on how GDELT uses Google Cloud Platform, especially tools like BigQuery and Google's AI…

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VGKG 2.0 Adds Cloud Vision Web Detect

We are tremendously excited to announce today that over the past 24 hours we have completed the integration of Google…

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Datasets For The SBP-BRiMS 2017 Grand Interdisciplinary Data-Science Challenge On "Fake News"

We are excited to be one of the datasets for the SBP-BRiMS 2017 Grand Interdisciplinary Data-Science Challenge focusing on "fake news"…

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Map: Global Happiness In 2016

This new map repeats last year's map of global happiness using BigQuery and Carto to map global happiness in 2016…

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Map: Using Google's Deep Learning AI To Geolocate Global News Imagery

Last March we released a map showcasing the deep learning-powered "visual geocoder" capability of Google's Cloud Vision API applied to…

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Building An ElasticSearch Cluster To Search The Planet

When it comes to exploring patterns in GDELT’s immense data archives stretching back two centuries, nothing on this earth can…

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Using GDELT 2 with PHP to Analyze the World

Patrick van Bergen wrote this great article showing how to analyze GDELT in PHP using BigQuery! Read The Full Article.

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Geographic FeatureID To Common Name Crosswalk

UPDATE: This dataset has been updated May 2018. In support of its global geocoding efforts, GDELT maintains gazetteers containing several…

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Mapping Sexual And Gendered Violence Across The World 2015-2016

Following the template laid out in our BigQuery+UDF One Minute Maps, today we unveil a map that offers a glimpse…

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GDELT Blog Reaches 800 Posts!

Yesterday the GDELT Blog reached an incredible milestone: its 800th post! From massive new dataset announcements to helpful tutorials, technical…

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An Animated Daily Map Of American Television News 2009-2016

Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a city/landmark-level animation mapping every location on earth mentioned at least 3 or more times in a given…

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A City-Level Look At 6 Years Of American Television

Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a city/landmark-level map visualizing the every location on earth mentioned at least 5 or more…

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Choropleth Mapping 6 Years of American Television

Kalev's latest Forbes piece features a choropleth map visualizing the total number of times each country in the world has…

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Strata + Hadoop World Keynote Global Happiness Map

Attendee Walid Mehanna tweeted this fantastic image of Jordan Tigani's Strata + Hadoop World keynote that featured, among other topics,…