Visualization credit GDELT Project.

Country Word Clouds

Dataset: Global Knowledge Graph

Description: A sequence of word clouds showing the top people mentioned in news coverage of each of the world's countries April 2013 to March 18, 2014.

Software: PERL, R, wordcloud

Read More: Read more about this visualization on the GDELT Blog.

A key focus of GDELT in 2014 is on how to make its incredibly vast and rich datasets easier to work with and, in particular, more accessible to the non-technical community. To help unlock these incredibly unique insights into global society, we're experimenting with a range of new visualizations and other ways of interacting with GDELT's archives. The popularity of "word clouds" on the web as a way of visualizing patterns in large amounts of data got us thinking about what a "word cloud" of a world leader might look like. Towards this end, the images on this page offer a first glimpse of a new tool coming shortly that will let you create a word cloud around a leader, location, organization, or theme. In the word clouds below, the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph was scanned for all coverage of each country in the world tracked by the GDELT Daily Trends Report April 2013 to March 18, 2014. A list was compiled of every person that had appeared in a news article alongside each country and how often the name appeared in coverage mentioning that country, which was then visualized using the R "wordcloud" module to create the final visualizations you see on this page.




Afghanistan


Albania


Algeria


Andorra


Angola


Argentina


Armenia


Australia


Austria


Azerbaijan


Bahrain


Bangladesh


Belarus


Belgium


Belize


Benin


Bhutan


Bolivia


Bosnia Herzegovina


Botswana


Brazil


Brunei


Bulgaria


Burkina Faso


Burundi


Cambodia


Cameroon


Canada


Central African Republic


Chad


Chile


China


Colombia


Comoros


Congo


Costa Rica


Croatia


Cuba


Cyprus


Czech Republic


Czechoslovakia


Democratic Republic of the Congo


Denmark


Djibouti


Dominican Republic


East Timor


Ecuador


Egypt


El Salvador


Equatorial Guinea


Eritrea


Estonia


Ethiopia


Finland


France


French Guiana


French Polynesia


Gabon


Gambia


Gaza Strip


Georgia


Germany


Ghana


Greece


Guatemala


Guernsey


Guinea


Guinea Bissau


Guyana


Haiti


Honduras


Hong Kong


Hungary


India


Indonesia


Iran


Iraq


Ireland


Isle of Man


Israel


Italy


Jamaica


Japan


Jordan


Kazakhstan


Kenya


Kosovo


Kuwait


Kyrgyzstan


Laos


Latvia


Lebanon


Lesotho


Liberia


Libya


Liechtenstein


Lithuania


Luxembourg


Macedonia


Madagascar


Malawi


Malaysia


Mali


Mauritania


Mayotte


Mexico


Moldova


Monaco


Mongolia


Montenegro


Morocco


Mozambique


Myanmar


Namibia


Nepal


Netherlands


New Caledonia


New Zealand


Nicaragua


Niger


Nigeria


North Korea


Norway


Oman


Pakistan


Panama


Paraguay


Peru


Philippines


Poland


Portugal


Qatar


Reunion


Romania


Russia


Rwanda


San Marino


Sao Tome and Principe


Saudi Arabia


Senegal


Serbia


Sierra Leone


Singapore


Slovak Republic


Slovenia


Somalia


South Africa


South Korea


South Sudan


Spain


Sri Lanka


Sudan


Suriname


Swaziland


Sweden


Switzerland


Syria


Taiwan


Tajikistan


Tanzania


Thailand


Togo


Tokelau


Tunisia


Turkey


Turkmenistan


Tuvalu


Uganda


Ukraine


United Arab Emirates


United Kingdom


Uruguay


Uzbekistan


Venezuela


Vietnam Democratic Republic of


Vietnam Republic of


West Bank


Western Sahara


Yemen


Yugoslavia


Zambia


Zanzibar


Zimbabwe