250 million international events in one place

Researcher Kavel lythari from Dzhordtaunskogo University, gathered catalog of 250 million events have occurred in the world since 1979, which is updated daily and is available to anyone interested who wants to explore .

Each entry has a set of 58 attributes. And the collection is divided into 300 different categories. At present catalog has a volume of 100 GB and a hoster is Goolge.

To carry out the analysis, the user can download the entire set, or he is interested in a category or use the Google BigQuery directly on the site.

Database is automatically updated from many sources around the world novsti. All are processed using different algorithms and text maning'a geocoding created lythari and then entered into the database. In addition, the author notes that, in connection with the recent advances in natural language processing, will soon increase the proportion of non-English speaking sources.

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Source: habrahabr.ru/post/224647/