Getting Started with GDELT Some quick tutorials on working with the Global Data on Events, Location and Tone. View in NBViewer Part 1: Getting started Part 2: Making maps 2015 update GDELT is now hosted on Google BigQuery too, where you can instantly analyze the dataset without the need of downloading anything. Check some resources: Jupyter Notebook with graph network visualizations. Getting Started with GDELT + Google Cloud Datalab: Simple Timelines. GDELT video, includes some live coding.