GDELT events by initiating country, daily

Daily GDELT event totals by the country of the actor who initiated each event (Actor1): events, articles and summed tone. Country codes are CAMEO three-letter codes such as USA and GBR.

Table: demo.geopolitics.gdelt_daily_actor1
Source: The GDELT Project
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SELECT day, actor_country_code, event_count, articles, tone_sum
  FROM demo.geopolitics.gdelt_daily_actor1
 LIMIT 10

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Which countries' actors initiate the most events?

SELECT actor_country_code, SUM(event_count) AS events
  FROM demo.geopolitics.gdelt_daily_actor1
 WHERE actor_country_code IS NOT NULL
 GROUP BY actor_country_code
 ORDER BY events DESC
 LIMIT 10

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What did the busiest initiating countries do on the latest day?

SELECT day, actor_country_code, event_count, articles
  FROM demo.geopolitics.gdelt_daily_actor1
 ORDER BY day DESC, event_count DESC
 LIMIT 10

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Schema

Columns

Column	Type
day	TIMESTAMP
actor_country_code	VARCHAR
tone_sum	FLOAT64
articles	INT64
event_count	INT64