GDELT: Global News Events Database with Themes and Emotions
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Description
A continuous, real-time monitoring project of global broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every country in over 100 languages. It identifies people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, quotes, images, and events driving global society. The dataset is hosted on AWS Open Data and its license terms are provided by the GDELT Project.
Use Cases
Track global event trends and sentiment based on identified themes and emotions.
Analyze media coverage of organizations and locations mentioned in the news.
Study the frequency and tone of quotes attributed to public figures.
Monitor disaster response and international incidents based on event mentions.
Strengths
Covers news from nearly every country in over 100 languages.
Identifies multiple data dimensions including events, themes, emotions, and quotes.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
GDELT Project
Collection Method
Automated monitoring of global broadcast, print, and web news.
Time Range
Continuous real-time coverage.
Freshness
Continuous real-time monitoring, but last platform update is unknown.
Geography
Global, from nearly every corner of every country.
License terms are specific to the GDELT Project and must be reviewed at the provided URL.