When will the civil war in Syria subside? Will there be fighting on the Korean peninsula? The answers defy the best human minds, but there may be a tool to help them: the world's largest database of geopolitical events has been released. And as it is refined, it could make forecasting events - and conflicts, in particular - as common as predicting the weather. The Global Data on Events, Location and Tone data set (GDELT) contains nearly a quarter of a billion events going back to 1979 and hoovers up 100,000 new events every day. Its software scours media sources, such as the Associated Press, Agence France Presse and Xinhua, the main news agency in China. Collectively, the sources monitored cover every countrv in the world.
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