Global News Pulse
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Every figure here is derived from news coverage, not from people. GDELT's scores are inferred from the language of reporting — they are not survey data, not social-media sentiment, and not a measurement of public opinion. They describe the characteristics of the reporting itself.
- Tone — the average emotional tone of the articles covering an event, from strongly negative to strongly positive. It reflects how a story is written, not how people feel.
- Cooperation ↔ conflict (Goldstein) — a −10 to +10 score attached to the type of action reported (e.g. a peace agreement scores high, an armed assault scores low), regardless of who is right.
- Attention — how many distinct articles and sources mentioned an event: a measure of media volume, not importance or truth.
Coverage is uneven — English-language and well-connected regions are over-represented, and a single widely-syndicated story can dominate a country's numbers. Read it as a pulse of the global news feed, not a scoreboard of world events.
A live read on how the world's news is covering the world. Every 15 minutes,
The GDELT Project
machine-reads news reports from across the globe and codes each one into a "who did what to
whom" event. This dashboard queries those events over Opteryx with no backend of its own —
straight from materialized views over the continuously growing
public.geopolitics.gdelt_events table, which Opteryx rebuilds automatically
every time new events land.