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hw.py

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+# Basic use and new schema method
+import gdelt
+import geopandas as gpd
+
+
+def main():
+    gd = gdelt.gdelt()
+
+    # NOTE: output='gpd' is broken in gdelt 0.1.14 with current numpy/pandas
+    # (its parallel geometry builder feeds numpy arrays into DataFrame.apply,
+    # and it still uses the removed crs={'init': ...} form).  We pull plain
+    # pandas and build the GeoDataFrame ourselves instead.
+    events = gd.Search(['2017 May 23'], table='events', output='pandas',
+                       normcols=True, coverage=False)
+
+    events = events[events['actiongeolat'].notnull()
+                    & events['actiongeolong'].notnull()]
+    events = gpd.GeoDataFrame(
+        events,
+        geometry=gpd.points_from_xy(events['actiongeolong'],
+                                    events['actiongeolat']),
+        crs='EPSG:4326',
+    )
+
+    print(events.shape)
+    print(events[['globaleventid', 'actiongeofullname', 'geometry']].head())
+
+    # new schema method
+    print(gd.schema('events'))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()