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Building dictionaries for Word Encodings using BigQuery SQL

Google's Sergei Sokolenko demonstrates how to convert the GKG's themes, names and locations fields into a numeric BOW vector suitable…

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Big Data at BBVA Research using GDELT+BigQuery

Tomasa Rodrigo Lopez from BBVA Research presented at Google Next Madrid this past June 8th on how they are using…

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VGKG 2.0 Now Available In Partitioned BigQuery Table

As the GDELT Visual Global Knowledge Graph (VGKG) has grown to just over 287 million images totaling 3.2TB of JSON…

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GDELT 3.0 And Using BigQuery And Streaming Google Cloud Storage For Logging

One of the most incredible aspects of working in Google's cloud environment is that no matter what you need, chances are…

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GDELT Featured In BigQuery + Excel Documentation Example

GDELT was used as an example in a tutorial on how to connect Bigquery to Excel on Google's Big Data…

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Connecting BigQuery To Microsoft Excel Using The New ODBC Driver

A new post by Tim Swast on the cloud big data and machine learning blog showcases a number of fascinating…

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Analysing World Events Using the GDELT dataset and Google BigQuery

Ali Niknejad of the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London will be speaking at the Research Software Engineers…

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Announcing Partitioned GDELT BigQuery Tables

As GDELT has grown to truly extraordinary scale, the sheer magnitude of all of that data has made it increasingly…

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Making NGrams At BigQuery Scale

Ever since 2010's Culturomics paper and with the rise of ever-more powerful linguistic modeling systems, ngrams have surged back into…

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Using BigQuery Table Decorators To Lower Query Cost

As GDELT has grown at an exponential rate, the size and complexity of its data archives means it takes ever…

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GDELT Part Of Inaugural Google BigQuery Public Datasets

We're tremendously excited that GDELT is part of the inaugural set of Google BigQuery Public Datasets unveiled earlier this month!…

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Exploring GDELT Using Tableau + BigQuery

Tableau put together a great video showcasing how easy it is to use Tableau and Google BigQuery to interactively explore…

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Google BigQuery + Visual GKG: Sample Queries

Now that the new Visual Global Knowledge Graph, powered by Google Cloud Vision API, is available in Google's BigQuery platform,…

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GDELT Featured In BigQuery Documentation Example

We're excited that GDELT was used as an example dataset to illustrate the new BigQuery Query Plan Explanation feature! See the Documentation.

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A Compilation Of GDELT BigQuery Demos

With the debut of GDELT 2.0 earlier this year and the general availability of the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) in…

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Terascale Sentiment Analysis: BigQuery + Tone Coding Books

As we continue to add new sentiment dictionaries to GDELT on a regular basis, a common request has been the ability…

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Using BigQuery To Explore Large Log Files: Exploring the Wayback Machine

Kalev's latest Forbes piece explores what is really in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the nuance and biases of…

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One-Click Network Visualization With BigQuery+Gephi

For his latest Forbes piece, Kalev took a network visualization developed by the BBVA Research Emerging Markets Unit of how…

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Mapping at Infinite Scale: Terascale and Petascale Cartography and Big Data in the BigQuery Era

This past Saturday, on Halloween, the GDELT 2.0 Global Knowledge Graph reached 150 million articles in 65 languages from just…

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New One Minute Maps: BigQuery UDF + CartoDB

We're incredibly excited to announce today the ability to generate rich interactive geographic maps in less than 60 seconds from…

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Google BigQuery + 3.5M Books: Sample Queries

To help you get started with the latest GDELT collection of 3.5 million digitized historical English language books published from…

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3.5 Million Books 1800-2015: GDELT Processes Internet Archive and HathiTrust Book Archives and Available In Google BigQuery

Today we are enormously excited to announce that more than 3.5 million digitized books stretching back two centuries, encompassing the…

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Advanced Mapping with the GDELT API + BigQuery

Today we feature the second half of the announcement of our incredible new collaboration with online mapping platform CartoDB to make…

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Understanding Global Conflict And Disasters Through BigQuery: Advanced Examples

BigQuery makes it possible to explore data at scales limited really only by your imagination and to help get you…