https://github.com/dmasad/gdelt_intro

Quick tutorial on getting started with GDELT
https://github.com/dmasad/gdelt_intro

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Quick tutorial on getting started with GDELT

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dmasad/gdelt_intro
• Owner: dmasad
• Created: 2013-04-12T16:43:07.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-11-04T20:20:12.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-17T08:15:28.528Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: CSS
• Size: 2.03 MB
• Stars: 38
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md

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## Getting Started with GDELT

Some quick tutorials on working with the Global Data on Events, Location and Tone.

### View in NBViewer

[Part 1: Getting started](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/dmasad/GDELT_Intro/master/Getting_Started_with_GDELT.ipynb)

[Part 2: Making maps](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/dmasad/GDELT_Intro/master/GDELT_Mapping.ipynb)

### 2015 update

[GDELT is now hosted on Google BigQuery](http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/05/worlds-largest-event-dataset-now-publicly-available-in-google-bigquery.html) too, where you can instantly analyze the dataset without the need of downloading anything. Check some resources:

- [Jupyter Notebook with graph network visualizations](http://data.gdeltproject.org/blog/google-cloud-datalab-demos/Getting%20Started%20with%20GDELT%20%2B%20Google%20Cloud%20Datalab%20-%20Simple%20Network%20Visualizations.html).

- [Getting Started with GDELT + Google Cloud Datalab: Simple Timelines](http://blog.gdeltproject.org/getting-started-with-gdelt-google-cloud-datalab-simple-timelines/).

- [GDELT video, includes some live coding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psp7YivWL90).