Google's BigQuery Provides Free Access to GDELT

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-31

Summary:

"The Global Database of Events, Language and Tone is one of the largest datasets on the planet. It is the quantitative database of human society, relying on thousands of news sources from every corner of the globe dating back to 1979. It was thought up by Kalev Leetaru, who is also the author of the Google release post referenced above. The GDELT covers all countries globally spanning a third of a century, and consists of daily updates during that time period. Hundreds of millions of records, each with 59 fields narrating into detail the actors and events having taken place. Every record is georeferenced, so you can globally place it, and all actors are tagged with appropriate ethnic and religious affiliation. All this – free and available for your perusal, and you don’t even have to have the computing power to handle it. Google BigQuery, 'Google’s powerful cloud-based analytical database service' is, basically, the world’s fastest SQL engine, and it’s completely free for any and all uses of GDELT. Due to the sheer power of BigQuery, you can get results on GDELT queries in near real-time and any permutation of fields and values you can think of won’t be enough to bog it down to a halt – unless you really mess things up and go against the grain. If you deal with databases in any regards and the following paragraph doesn’t send chills down your spine, you’re probably dead ..."

Link:

http://www.sitepoint.com/googles-bigquery-provides-free-access-gdelt/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.databases oa.geodata oa.gdelt oa.bigquery oa.cloud oa.data.analysis

Date tagged:

05/31/2014, 18:13

Date published:

05/31/2014, 14:13