<s>
The	B-Application
GDELT	I-Application
Project	I-Application
,	O
or	O
Global	B-Application
Database	I-Application
of	I-Application
Events	I-Application
,	I-Application
Language	I-Application
,	I-Application
and	I-Application
Tone	I-Application
,	O
created	O
by	O
Kalev	O
Leetaru	O
of	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
Early	O
explorations	O
leading	O
up	O
to	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
GDELT	B-Application
were	O
described	O
by	O
co-creator	O
Philip	O
Schrodt	O
in	O
a	O
conference	O
paper	O
in	O
January	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
dataset	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
GDELT	B-Application
includes	O
data	O
from	O
1979	O
to	O
the	O
present	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
data	O
is	O
available	O
as	O
zip	O
files	O
in	O
tab-separated	O
value	O
format	O
using	O
a	O
CSV	O
extension	O
for	O
easy	O
import	O
into	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Excel	I-Application
or	O
similar	O
spreadsheet	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
blog	O
post	O
for	O
Foreign	O
Policy	O
,	O
co-creator	O
Kalev	O
Leetaru	O
attempted	O
to	O
use	O
GDELT	B-Application
data	O
to	O
answer	O
the	O
question	O
of	O
whether	O
the	O
Arab	O
Spring	O
sparked	O
protests	O
worldwide	O
,	O
using	O
the	O
quotient	O
of	O
the	O
number	O
of	O
protest-related	O
events	O
to	O
the	O
total	O
number	O
of	O
events	O
recorded	O
as	O
a	O
measure	O
of	O
protest	O
intensity	O
for	O
which	O
the	O
time	O
trend	O
was	O
then	O
studied	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
dataset	O
is	O
also	O
available	O
on	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
and	O
can	O
be	O
accessed	O
using	O
Google	B-Application
BigQuery	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GDELT	B-Application
has	O
been	O
cited	O
and	O
used	O
in	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
academic	O
studies	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
a	O
study	O
of	O
visual	O
and	O
predictive	B-General_Concept
analytics	I-General_Concept
of	O
Singapore	O
news	O
(	O
along	O
with	O
Wikipedia	O
and	O
the	O
Straits	O
Times	O
Index	O
)	O
and	O
a	O
study	O
of	O
political	O
conflict	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
challenge	O
problem	O
at	O
the	O
2014	O
International	O
Social	O
Computing	O
,	O
Behavioral	O
Modeling	O
and	O
Prediction	O
Conference	O
(	O
SBP	O
)	O
asked	O
participants	O
to	O
explore	O
GDELT	B-Application
and	O
apply	O
it	O
to	O
the	O
analysis	O
of	O
social	O
networks	O
,	O
behavior	O
,	O
and	O
prediction	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GDELT	B-Application
has	O
been	O
covered	O
on	O
the	O
website	O
of	O
the	O
Center	O
for	O
Data	O
Innovation	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
the	O
GIS	O
Lounge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
also	O
been	O
cited	O
in	O
New	O
Scientist	O
,	O
on	O
the	O
FiveThirtyEight	B-Application
website	O
and	O
Andrew	O
Sullivan	O
's	O
blog	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Predictive	O
Heuristics	O
blog	O
and	O
other	O
blogs	O
have	O
compared	O
GDELT	B-Application
with	O
the	O
Integrated	O
Conflict	O
Early	O
Warning	O
System	O
(	O
ICEWS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Alex	O
Hanna	O
blogged	O
about	O
her	O
experiment	O
assessing	O
GDELT	B-Application
with	O
handcoded	O
data	O
by	O
comparing	O
it	O
with	O
the	O
Dynamics	O
of	O
Collective	O
Action	O
dataset	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2014	O
,	O
the	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
blog	O
announced	O
that	O
the	O
entire	O
GDELT	B-Application
dataset	O
would	O
be	O
available	O
as	O
a	O
public	O
dataset	O
in	O
Google	B-Application
BigQuery	I-Application
.	O
</s>
