Visualization credit GDELT Project.

World Leader Word Clouds

Dataset: Global Knowledge Graph

Description: A sequence of word clouds showing the top people mentioned in news coverage of the world's heads of state April 2013 to March 18, 2014.

Software: PERL, R, wordcloud

Read More: Read more about this visualization on the GDELT Blog.

A key focus of GDELT in 2014 is on how to make its incredibly vast and rich datasets easier to work with and, in particular, more accessible to the non-technical community. To help unlock these incredibly unique insights into global society, we're experimenting with a range of new visualizations and other ways of interacting with GDELT's archives. The popularity of "word clouds" on the web as a way of visualizing patterns in large amounts of data got us thinking about what a "word cloud" of a world leader might look like. Towards this end, the images on this page offer a first glimpse of a new tool coming shortly that will let you create a word cloud around a leader, location, organization, or theme. In the word clouds below, the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph was scanned for all coverage of each world leader tracked by the GDELT World Leaders Index April 2013 to March 18, 2014. A list was compiled of every person that had appeared in a news article alongside each leader and how often the two names appeared together, which was then visualized using the R "wordcloud" module to create the final visualizations you see on this page.




Abdelaziz Bouteflika


Abdelilah Benkirane


Abdelmalek Sellal


Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed


Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed


Abdul Hamid


Abdulla Yameen


Abdullah


Abdullah Ensour


Abdullah Gul


Adly Mansour


Adrian Hasler


Akihito


Alain Berset


Alassane Ouattara


Alberto Vaquina


Alenka Bratusek


Alexander Lukashenko


Algirdas Butkevicius


Ali Khamenei


Ali Zeidan


Almazbek Atambayev


Alpha Conde


Amama Mbabazi


Aminata Toure


Andre Nzapayeke


Andris Berzins


Andrus Ansip


Angela Merkel


Anibal Cavaco Silva


Anthony Carmona


Antonis Samaras


Armando Guebuza


Arthur Foulkes


Artur Rasizade


Augustin Matata Ponyo


Bakir Izetbegovic


Baldwin Spencer


Barack Obama


Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini


Baron Waqa


Bashar al Assad


Benigno Aquino


Benjamin Netanyahu


Bhumibol Adulyadej


Blaise Compaore


Bohuslav Sobotka


Borut Pahor


Brigi Rafini


Bronislaw Komorowski


Bujar Nishani


Cesar Villanueva


Choummaly Sayasone


Christopher Loeak


Dalia Grybauskaite


Daniel Kablan Duncan


Daniel Ortega


Danilo Medina


David Cameron


David Johnston


Denis Sassou Nguesso


Denzil Douglas


Didier Burkhalter


Dilma Rousseff


Dmitry Medvedev


Donald Ramotar


Donald Tusk


Doris Leuthard


Edi Rama


Edmund Lawrence


Ellen Johnson Sirleaf


Elliott Belgrave


Emomalii Rahmon


Enda Kenny


Enele Sopoaga


Enrico Letta


Enrique Pena Nieto


Epeli Nailatikau


Erna Solberg


Ernest Bai Koroma


Eveline Widmer Schlumpf


Evo Morales


Faure Gnassingbe


Filip Vujanovic


Francois Hollande


Frank Bainimarama


Frank Kabui


Fredrik Reinfeldt


Freundel Stuart


George Abela


Giorgi Margvelashvili


Giorgio Napolitano


Giuseppe Bertello


Gjorge Ivanov


Goodluck Jonathan


Gordon Darcy Lilo


Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow


Hage Geingob


Hailemariam Desalegn


Hamid Karzai


Harald


Hassan Rouhani


Hassan Sheikh Mohamud


Hassanal Bolkiah


Hazem Al Beblawi


Heinz Fischer


Helle Thorning Schmidt


Hery Rajaonarimampianina


Hifikepunye Pohamba


Horacio Cartes


Hun Sen


Iakoba Italeli


Ian Khama


Ibrahim Boubacar Keita


Idriss Deby


Ikililou Dhoinine


Ilham Aliyev


Irakli Garibashvili


Isaias Afewerki


Islam Karimov


Ismail Omar Guelleh


Iurie Leanca


Ivan Gasparovic


Ivica Dacic


Ivo Josipovic


Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah


Jacob Zuma


Jakaya Kikwete


Jalal Talabani


James Michel


Janos Ader


Jayaratne


Jean Marc Ayrault


Jerry Mateparae


Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck


Joachim Gauck


Johann Schneider Ammann


John Dramani Mahama


John Key


Jorge Carlos Fonseca


Jose Maria Neves


Jose Mujica


Joseph Kabila


Joyce Banda


Juan Carlos


Juan Manuel Santos


Juan Orlando Hernandez


Jyrki Katainen


Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet


Kamla Persad Bissessar


Karolos Papoulias


Keith Mitchell


Kenny Anthony


Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan


Khil Raj Regmi


Kim Jong un


Kim Yong nam


Kokhir Rasulzoda


Kwesi Ahoomey Zunu


Laimdota Straujuma


Laurent Lamothe


Li Keqiang


Macky Sall


Mahamadou Issoufou


Mahinda Rajapaksa


Mahmoud Abbas


Mamnoon Hussain


Manmohan Singh


Manny Mori


Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo


Mariano Rajoy


Mark Rutte


Mauricio Funes


Mehdi Jomaa


Michael Ogio


Michel Martelly


Michel Suleiman


Michelle Bachelet


Mikhail Myasnikovich


Milo Dukanovic


Milos Zeman


Mizengo Pinda


Mohammed Basindawa


Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum


Moncef Marzouki


Mswati


Mulatu Teshome


Najib Mikati


Najib Razak


Navin Ramgoolam


Nawaz Sharif


Nebojsa Radmanovic


Nicolae Timofti


Nicolas Maduro


Nicos Anastasiades


Nikola Gruevski


Norodom Sihamoni


Norovyn Altankhuyag


Nouri Abusahmain


Nouri al Maliki


Nursultan Nazarbayev


Olafur Ragnar Grimsson


Ollanta Humala


Omar al Bashir


Omer Beriziky


Otto Perez Molina


Pak Pong ju


Patrick Allen


Paul Biya


Paul Kagame


Pearlette Louisy


Pedro Passos Coelho


Perry Christie


Peter Cosgrove


Pierre Habumuremyi


Pierre Nkurunziza


Plamen Oresharski


Pope Francis


Portia Simpson Miller


Pranab Mukherjee


Quentin Bryce


Rafael Correa


Rajkeswur Purryag


Ralph Gonsalves


Ram Baran Yadav


Raul Castro


Ricardo Martinelli


Robert Fico


Robert Mugabe


Roosevelt Skerrit


Rosen Plevneliev


Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah


Salva Kiir Mayardit


Sam Hinds


Sauli Niinisto


Sebastian Pinera


Serhiy Arbuzov


Serik Akhmetov


Serzh Sargsyan


Shavkat Mirziyoyev


Sheikh Hasina


Shimon Peres


Shinzo Abe


Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson


Simonetta Sommaruga


Stephen Harper


Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono


Sylvie Hubac


Tammam Salam


Taoiseach


Taur Matan Ruak


Tayyip Erdogan


Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo


Thein Sein


Thongsing Thammavong


Tigran Sargsyan


Tom Thabane


Tomislav Nikolic


Tommy Remengesau


Tony Abbott


Tony Tan


Toomas Hendrik Ilves


Traian Basescu


Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj


Tshering Tobgay


Tupou


Ueli Maurer


Uhuru Kenyatta


Valentin Inzko


Vicente Ehate Tomi


Victor Ponta


Viktor Orban


Viktor Yanukovych


Vjekoslav Bevanda


Vladimir Putin


Wael Nader Al Halqi


Werner Faymann


Xanana Gusmao


Xavier Bettel


Xi Jinping


Yahya Jammeh


Yayi Boni


Yingluck Shinawatra


Yoweri Museveni


Zeljko Komsic


Zhantoro Satybaldiyev


Zoran Milanovic