All the news, always: Now What?

GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created.

Yes, REALLY Big!

GDELT is 100 percent free, with the entire dataset available for immediate download and a set of tools available to work with it.

Creating a platform that monitors the world’s news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day and that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day, with daily updates, required an unprecedented array of technical and methodological innovations, partnerships, and whole new mindsets to bring this all together and make it a reality.

Creating a database of a quarter billion georeferenced records covering the entire world over 30 years, coupled with the massive networks that connect all of the people, organizations, locations, themes, and emotions underlying those events, required not only solving unparalleled challenges to create the database, but also a “reimagining” of how we interact and think about societal-scale data.

Links:

• The GDELT Project
• The Data
• GDELT Blog
• Kalev Hannes Leetaru