The GDELT Project

GDELT is of the largest and most ambitious global open data initiatives in the world for understanding global human society, totaling more than 8 trillion datapoints spanning 200 years in 152 languages. From mapping global conflict and modeling global narratives to providing the data behind one of the earliest alerts of the COVID-19 pandemic, from disaster response to countering wildlife crime, epidemic early warning to food security, estimating realtime global risk to mapping the global flow of ideas and narratives, GDELT explores how we can use massive data, computing power and AI to let us see the world through the eyes of others and even forecast the future, capturing the realtime heartbeat of the planet we call home. GDELT leverages the raw power of the modern cloud, spanning nearly all of GCP’s worldwide data centers and leveraging Compute Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Vision, Cloud Video, Cloud Speech to Text, Cloud Natural Language, Cloud Translation, Timeseries Insights API, Inference API and myriad other GCP services to monitor, visualize and even forecast planet earth in realtime. What does it look like to analyze, visualize and even forecast the world in realtime through the eyes of today’s most advanced AI and analytic systems at planetary scale?