Data
GDELT Event Database 2.0
Events coded from international news: actors, CAMEO action, tone, mentions and geolocation.
How to cite
The GDELT Project. GDELT Event Database 2.0. https://www.gdeltproject.org/data.html
What it contains
The GDELT event database records political and social interactions as subject-action-object triples. Each record includes:
- Identifiers and dates (
GLOBALEVENTID,SQLDATE). - Actors and their country, ethnic, religious and role codes.
- CAMEO action (
EventCode,EventRootCode,QuadClass). - Media metrics (
NumMentions,NumSources,AvgTone). - Geolocation (
ActionGeo_*).
The event database is complemented by the Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) and the mentions table.
How the portal uses it
Analyses cite published aggregates and document the query. The full database is not redistributed. To reproduce a series, download the files from the source and run the documented script in the repository.
License and citation
GDELT describes itself as free and open, but its terms of use should be checked before redistributing or reusing the data commercially. This page links to the original source.
Caveats
Events are signals mediated by censorship, communications infrastructure and source selection. A fall in the number of protests may reflect an information lockdown, not pacification. The 2014 update multiplied the number of sources and introduces a series break.