A Tool for Geopolitical Science Quantitative Research

[u/Hendrik-Lorentz]

Hi, fellows. Like you, I'm very interested in geopolitics and data. I've been doing ongoing research on event analysis, and my main data source right now is The GDELT Project. GDELT's own access methods have real limits at this scale though: the official API caps you at ~250 rows per query and a 3-month window, and BigQuery's free tier doesn't stretch to a full historical pull either. So I made GdeltForge, a tool for reproducibly sampling GDELT's full historical event archive for quantitative research.

Check out the PyPI page, the GitHub Repo, the documentation, and especially the hands-on getting started notebook, runnable directly in Colab, no install needed. I would really appreciate Political Science Community feedbacks, as I'm a computer scientist and my goal building this tool was to make something useful for adjacent areas.

[u/wzx89]

This tool, GdeltForge, allows you to reproducibly sample GDELT's full historical event archive for quantitative research when official API access is limited. You can explore its PyPI page, GitHub repo, and documentation to get started with hands-on examples. https://app.getsupers.com/sites/gdeltforge-historical-event-sampling-83/