Question: How many events are there in the full dataset examined?
Evidence: The Phoenix dataset is an attempt to take both the new advances in event data described above, along with decades of knowledge regarding best practices, in order to create a new iteration of event data. The dataset makes use of 450 English-language news sites, which are each scraped every hour for new content. New data is generated on a daily basis, coded according to the CAMEO event ontology, with an average of 2,200 events generated per day. The full dataset examined here contains 254,060 total events spread across 102 days of generated data. Based on publicly available information, the project also makes use of the most up-to-date actor dictionaries of any available machine-coded event dataset.
The dataset currently contains 27 columns: “EventID”, “Date”, “Year”, “Month”, “Day”, “SourceActorFull”, “SourceActorEntity”, “SourceActorRole”, “SourceActorAttribute”, “TargetActorFull”, “TargetActorEntity”, “TargetActorRole”, “TargetActorAttribute”, “EventCode”, “EventRootCode”, “QuadClass”, “GoldsteinScore”, “Issues”, “ActionLat”, “ActionLong”, “LocationName”, “GeoCountryName”, “GeoStateName”, “SentenceID”, “URLs”, “NewsSources.” While there are columns included for geolocation of events, this feature is not fully implemented due to the difficult nature of accurately geolocating event data.
The *ActorFull columns include the full actor coding, which is made up of several three-letter CAMEO codes strung together. *ActorEntity breaks out the top-level code, which is usually a country code but can also be “IMG” for international militarized group, “IGO” for inter(national) governmental organizations, or “MNC” for multinational corporations. *ActorRole includes codes like “GOV”, “MED”, “EDU”, “MIL”, and *ActorAttribute includes modifiers, such as “MOS”, “INS”, “ELI” (Muslim, insurgent, and elite).
EventCode is the full CAMEO code, while EventRootCode is the 20 top-level CAMEO categories. The QuadClass is an updated version of the quad class divisions seen in other event datasets. The changes include the creation of a 0 code for CAMEO category 01 (“Make a Statement”), rather than counting 01 as verbal cooperation, as well as several lower-level codes changing quad classes. Previous quadclass implementations sliced the CAMEO categories in a linear fashion. This new implementation takes into consideration what the CAMEO categories actually suggest in terms of material or verbal conflict/cooperation. In this scheme, 0 is “Neutral,” 1 is “Verbal Cooperation,” 2 is “Material Cooperation,” 3 is “Verbal Conflict,” and 4 is “Material Conflict.” The categories are as follows:
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The GoldsteinScore variable is the same, standard scale used in previous datasets BIBREF17 . The final column relating to event actions is codes for Issues. These issues are based on simple keyword lookups and serve as a mechanism to add further context to a CAMEO code. For instance, a statement (CAMEO code 01) might be about a specific topic such as education.
The final three columns include citation information for the events, including which news sources reported the event, the URLs for the story, an internal database ID for the stories, and which sentence in each story contained the coded event.
The full dataset examined here contains 254,060 total events spread across 102 days of generated data.
Answer: 254,060 total events.