Data & Indices
Quantitative tracking drawn from two established datasets — GDELT's event and tone data, and the Institute for Economics & Peace's Global Peace Index — read alongside the qualitative sections elsewhere on this site.
GDELT: event tone & volume
The GDELT Project monitors global news media and codes reported events by actor, action type, and tone (a −10 to +10 sentiment score derived from surrounding text). Tracking the daily volume and average tone of Russia–Ukraine-tagged events offers a rough proxy for how intensely and how negatively the conflict is being covered across monitored outlets, independent of any single publication's framing.
Daily event volume
Placeholder — chart of daily coded event count pending live GDELT API integration.
Average tone
Placeholder — rolling 7-day average tone score pending live GDELT API integration.
Global Peace Index (GPI)
Published annually by the Institute for Economics & Peace, the GPI ranks 163 countries and territories across 23 indicators spanning ongoing conflict, societal safety, and militarization. Russia's and Ukraine's year-over-year rank and score movement, alongside neighboring and NATO-member states, gives a slower-moving structural counterpoint to daily event tracking.
Ukraine — GPI rank & score trend
Placeholder — multi-year rank/score trend pending latest GPI release integration.
Russia — GPI rank & score trend
Placeholder — multi-year rank/score trend pending latest GPI release integration.
Methodology
GDELT figures will be pulled directly from the GDELT 2.0 Events and GKG APIs, filtered to CAMEO event codes associated with armed conflict and diplomatic actions between Russia- and Ukraine-coded actors. GPI figures are taken from the Institute for Economics & Peace's published annual report and country score sheets, with the underlying indicator weights disclosed alongside each figure once live.