The GDELT Project

Using The Global Relationship Graph To Compile English News Statements About Vaccination From May 1-6

Kalev Leetaru

Using the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, what can we learn about statements in English language online news media about vaccination from May 1 – 6, 2021?

The query below searches across the GRG, which today totals more than 1.6 billion statements across English language news coverage dating back to October 27, 2020:

WITH data AS (select date, pre, verb, post, urls[offset(0)].url url, urls[offset(0)].title title, LOWER(CONCAT(pre, ' ', verb, ' ', post)) search from `gdelt-bq.gdeltv2.grg_vcn` WHERE DATE(date) >= "2021-05-01")
select date, pre, verb, post, url, title from data where ( search like '%vaccin%' )

Using this query we find 585,524 results.