PlaceBrief ingests events continuously. These numbers refresh from the current aggregate backend used by the public product surface.
Thousands of articles and signals from GDELT, RSS feeds, and curated sources — tagged with precise location and timestamp.
Events projected onto an H3 hexagonal grid. Each cell accumulates a Goldstein score — a single number that represents area stability.
The widget renders a readable summary per destination — in the user's language — without any rendering work on your side.
The pipeline aggregates multiple source types and categories. These charts update from the live API.
Leading signal sources by event count.
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What kind of activity is shaping the signal most.
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How activity is distributed across the Goldstein scale, and how volume has changed over the last week.
Event count by sentiment bucket.
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Daily event count across all indexed locations.
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Every event in GDELT carries a Goldstein score — a measure of the theoretical impact on the stability of a country. PlaceBrief aggregates these per H3 cell to produce a single area score.
Adverse (score < −3)
Conflict, protests, sanctions, or significant disruptions. Users may want to reconsider or investigate further.
Moderate (−3 to +3)
Mixed or neutral conditions. Some activity, nothing unusual. The most common state for most destinations.
Positive (score > +3)
Stable, favorable conditions. Cooperation, positive events, low conflict. Good conditions for travel or business.
Data sources
Geographic model
Events are projected onto an H3 hexagonal grid at resolution 7 — each cell roughly 5 km across. This allows efficient spatial aggregation without bounding box queries or polygon joins.
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