Two Tales of the World: Comparison of Widely Used World News Datasets GDELT and EventRegistry

Authors

  • Haewoon Kwak Qatar Computing Research Institute
  • Jisun An Qatar Computing Research Institute

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v10i1.14763

Abstract

In this work, we compare GDELT and Event Registry, which monitor news articles worldwide and provide big data to researchers regarding scale, news sources, and news geography. We found significant differences in scale and news sources, but surprisingly, we observed high similarity in news geography between the two datasets. In this work, we compare GDELT and Event Registry, which monitor news articles worldwide and provide big data to researchers regarding scale, news sources, and news geography. We found significant differences in scale and news sources, but surprisingly, we observed high similarity in news geography between the two datasets.In this work, we compare GDELT and Event Registry, which monitor news articles worldwide and provide big data to researchers regarding scale, news sources, and news geography. We found significant differences in scale and news sources, but surprisingly, we observed high similarity in news geography between the two datasets.

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Published

2021-08-04

How to Cite

Kwak, H., & An, J. (2021). Two Tales of the World: Comparison of Widely Used World News Datasets GDELT and EventRegistry. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 10(1), 619-622. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v10i1.14763

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Section

Poster Papers