Global map of protests: 2013 so far
From the post:
We know that 2011 was the year of revolution in the Arab world, but how is 2013 shaping up so far? The Global Database of Events pulls together local, national and international news sources and codes them to identify all types of protest from collecting signatures to conducting hunger strikes to rioting.
Mapping the protests that took place in the first six months of 2013 isn’t perfectly accurate because we don’t know how many individuals took part but it does provide an insight into political action around the world.
Click on a protest below to see when it took place and how many times it was mentioned in the press.• Who made this? John Beieler, Ph.D. Student at Pennsylvania State University with the help of Josh Stevens.
See the GDELT Event Database hompage.
From that homepage:
The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is an initiative to construct a catalog of human societal-scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world over the last two centuries down to the city level globally, to make all of this data freely available for open research, and to provide daily updates to create the first “realtime social sciences earth observatory.” Nearly a quarter-billion georeferenced events capture global behavior in more than 300 categories covering 1979 to present with daily updates.
GDELT is designed to help support new theories and descriptive understandings of the behaviors and driving forces of global-scale social systems from the micro-level of the individual through the macro-level of the entire planet by offering realtime synthesis of global societal-scale behavior into a rich quantitative database allowing realtime monitoring and analytical exploration of those trends.
GDELT’s goal is to help uncover previously-obscured spatial, temporal, and perceptual evolutionary trends through new forms of analysis of the vast textual repositories that capture global societal activity, from news and social media archives to knowledge repositories.
Explore the other uses of GDELT while you are at the site.
I saw the post in the Guardian.