/nationalism_using_gdelt

This project aims to dive deeper into extracting the data in the GDELT Project which is a 'global database of society'. More specifically, I aim to investigate nationalistic movements around the world through NLP practices as well as investigating trends over time using time series analysis.

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Tracking Nationalism Around the World

Project Motives and Ideas

This project aims to dive deeper into extracting the data in the GDELT Project which is a 'global database of society'. More specifically, I aim to investigate nationalistic movements around the world through NLP practices as well as investigating trends over time using time series analysis.

Nationalism:
Nationalism is an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people) especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland.

Challenges

What will be challenging is determining what constitutes as nationalistic media since, most nationalists don't tend to use the word 'nationalism' when referring to themselves or their movement. So I will need to investigate ways to categorise articles as nationalistic. To do this, I might first start with training models on articles that are known to be nationalistic to determine patterns. The hard part will be extracting these pieces from the database.

The Data