The GDELT Project, or Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, created by Kalev Leetaru of Yahoo! and Georgetown University, along with Philip Schrodt and others, describes itself as "an initiative ...

How does Gdelt work?

GDELT codifies the world's collective information deluge into a single unified targeted data stream reporting all available information about a given crisis, fully georeferenced and placed into a global context, ready to instantly visualize, map, model, and forecast.

What does GDELT stand for?

The Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) has been gathering and databasing all the news events related to conflict and political protest dating back to 1979. GDELT continues to be fed new data through the various global news services, automatically updating every day.