What can we learn from the last 200 million things that happened in the world?

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There is a version of the reduced dataset here: http://eventdata.psu.edu/data.dir/GDELT.html And a python script to make some sense of the data is explained on this blog here: http://johnbeieler.org/blog/2013/04/04/how-do-i-gdelt-subset...