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World's largest event dataset now publicly available in BigQuery
by llagerlof

    The entire quarter-billion-record GDELT Event Database is now available as a public dataset in Google BigQuery.

    BigQuery is Google’s powerful cloud-based analytical database service, designed for the largest datasets on the planet. It allows users to run fast, SQL-like queries against multi-terabyte datasets in seconds. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery gives you real-time insights about your data. With the availability of GDELT in BigQuery, you can now access realtime insights about global human society and the planet itself!