EM Simpson
Christopher Clary
@charlie_simpson I'm not sure this is true. I think GDELT tries to identify discrete events. If not, why NumSources & NumArticles variables?
So if #GDELT says there were 649 kidnappings in Nigeria in 4 months, WHAT IT'S REALLY SAYING is there were 649 news stories abt kidnappings.
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@clary_co I've worked with automated event data for 15 years. You can try to de-duplicate or divide by # of stories. But it's hard.
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@charlie_simpson yes! Thank God somebody who knows what the fuck she's doing is pointing this out. -
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@charlie_simpson is it saying that, even? may be saying there are 649 sentences contained within news stories that mention kidnappings -
@alexhanna@charlie_simpson It's killing me that I stopped updating my local GDELT db in January. This should be answerable. -
@ahalterman@alexhanna@charlie_simpson Don't Forget that#GDELT collapses multiple mentions if it decides they're about the same event. -
@ahalterman@alexhanna@charlie_simpson It's bloody difficult just to tell what#GDELT's unit of analysis really is.
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Ward Harkavy
Alex Hanna
Andy Halterman
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