GDELTtools (version 1.7)

NormEventCounts: Scale event counts

Description

Scale event counts based on the unit of analysis.

Usage

NormEventCounts(x, unit_analysis, var_name = "norming_vars")

Value

data.frame

Arguments

x

data.frame, a GDELT data.frame.

unit_analysis

character, default is country_day; other options: country_month, country_year, day, month, year

var_name

character, base name for the new count variables

Author

Oskar N.T. Thoms
Stephen R. Haptonstahl
John Beieler

Details

For unit_analysis, day and country-day put out a data set where date is of class ‘date’. All other options put out a data set where year or month is integer (this needs to be unified in a later version).

References

GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone, 1979-2012. Presented at the 2013 meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco, CA. https://www.gdeltproject.org/

Examples

if (FALSE) {
GDELT_subset_data <- GetGDELT("2013-06-01", "2013-06-07",
  (ActionGeo_CountryCode=="AF" | ActionGeo_CountryCode=="US") & EventCode>=140 & EventCode<150,
  local_folder="~/gdeltdata")
GDELT_normed_data <- NormEventCounts(x = GDELT_subset_data, 
  unit_analysis="day", 
  var_name="protest")}