The GDELT Project

Tracking The Nigeria Gas Plant Explosion Through the Full Text Search API

To demonstrate how the new GDELT Full Text Search API can be used to track and understand rapidly-evolving breaking situations, the examples below show the output of the various API visualizations and outputs for the Christmas Eve tragedy in Nigeria where a gas plant exploded.

At the bottom of this post is a second example of the Zika outbreak in Brazil, showing the difference between the English and Native word cloud options.

Nigerian Gas Plant Explosion

Media Volume Timeline

Media Sentiment/Tone Timeline

English Word Cloud

Global Article List

Nigerian Press Coverage

Brazilian Zika Outbreak

English Translation Word Cloud

Native Language Word Cloud