Analyzing the World’s News: Exploring the GDELT Project Through Google BigQuery

This is awesome!

It'll 'disrupt' a LOT of very well-funded services in the field. If Google extends this to social media (and optionally, 'non-serious' news sources), this will be a truly global-level intelligence system available to everyone!

This will also make a LOT of lower-level 'defense/intelligence analysts' defunct if more work is put into it.