From: kalev leetaru <kalev.leeta...@gmail.com> Hi everyone, I wanted to let you all know about a new global database of events from across the world stretching back to 1979 and updated every 24 hours, all georeferenced to the city level, that I think could be of great interest to many of you in terms of situational awareness, tracking ongoing humanitarian situations or disasters, and for exploring long-range trends in areas of concern or focus. I mentioned this dataset in an email a few months ago, but I wanted to let you all know that the data is now up and available for download!
We are excited to announce the official release of the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), a new database of nearly a quarter-billion global social-political events in the CAMEO taxonomy of over 300 categories from riots and protests to diplomatic exchanges and peace appeals, covering all countries 1979-present. Each morning a daily update is posted containing 30,000 to 100,000 new events from the previous day, making this the first daily-updated event database available for open research. Special emphasis has been placed on enhanced coverage of Africa and Latin America, producing one of the first cross-national datasets for South America and the most extensive database for Africa. The standard CAMEO actor taxonomy has been enriched with new Religious and Ethnic actor attributes and all events are now georeferenced to the city level globally. A second version of GDELT to be released late this fall makes use of several billion pages of newly available digitized material to extend the database back to 1800 and will feature the new CAMEO 2.0 taxonomy that covers an array of new categories, ranging from disease to human rights to political transitions. In addition, an array of new emotional and thematic indicators will be made available that measure the prevalence and views towards a wide array of topics, from education and women’s rights to constitutionalism and views towards government, down to the city level globally. The vision of GDELT is to construct a catalog of human societal-scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world over the last two centuries down to the city level globally, to make all of this data freely available for open research, and to provide daily updates to create the first "realtime social sciences earth observatory." All data is therefore made available for open research of any kind, and an assortment of tutorials, documentation, and quick-start guides are provided on the GDELT website: http://gdelt.utdallas.edu/ Sincerely, Kalev Leetaru, Phil Schrodt, and Patrick Brandt
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