Collect and organize data for protests in Guatemala

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Collect and organize data for protests in Guatemala #26

Open 0x5448 opened 6 years ago

0x5448 commented 6 years ago

Goal: Find a data set for protest occurrence in Guatemala. Relevant resources: Check sources used in this paper. List any additional resources below.

0x5448 commented 6 years ago

GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone Summary: Discusses how to get a protest dataset using Tabari and a dictionary (see below)
Tabari Computational Event Data System Summary: NLP tool to generate political event data by lat/long coords
PRIO-GRID Summary: Spacial data structure to represent a matrix of vals given lat/longs

0x5448 commented 6 years ago

Human Rights Violations in Guatemala Summary: from 1968-1981, shows records of human rights violations and how many times each was reported in the media. Probably not usable but noting here in case we want to come back to it