Every Protest since 1979 - Visualized
Did you know that there is a thing called the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone ? From the site, The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is an initiative to construct a catalog of human societal-scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world over the last two centuries down to the city level globally, to make all of this data freely available for open research, and to provide daily updates to create the first "realtime social sciences earth observatory." Nearly a quarter-billion georeferenced events capture global behavior in more than 300 categories covering 1979 to present with daily updates. In short, a daily aggregation of new sources worldwide, since 1979. Epic scale doesn't even begin to cover it. As you might imagine, this allows for all sorts of visualizations (that is the point after all!), and John Beiele r has been doing some remarkably nifty work in this arena. His Protest Map is pretty amazing, mapping...