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Project ACLED GDELT conflict data GDELT and the Problem of Decontextualized Data

GDELT and the Problem of Decontextualized Data

Two recent FiveThirtyEight data journalism stories on Nigerian kidnappings use GDELT data in ways that don’t account for that dataset’s sources and biases. Here’s why that matters.

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