Data Science for Social Good Project

This project is titled “Data Science for Social Good: Mining and Visualizing Worldwide News to Monitor Xenophobic Violence” and was funded by the 2022-2023 ODU Data Science Seed Funding Program. We examined xenophobic events related to refugees and migration using the GDELT 2.0 database and APIs. Our research used visualizations to explore patterns in media coverage through two case studies. We also discussed the data analysis process and the challenges of working with GDELT data and its tools.