GDELT

In a previous version of my blog, I had posts from 2013 and 2014 describing how to work with a dataset called GDELT. I have serious misgivings about the quality of the data contained in GDELT, and after other members of the GDELT team cut ties with the project, I stopped using it as well.

I was going through the Petrarch2 dictionary code, working on live updating of dictionaries for the human coding interface, and ended up taking a look at the dictionaries’ coverage of different CAMEO event codes.