The GDELT Project is an ambitious initiative that processes a significant fraction of the world's news media in real-time, identifying various metadata indicators such as people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, and events driving global society. The project creates a free, open platform for computing on the entire world's news media, utilizing machine translation to translate content from 65 languages, accounting for 98.4% of media found daily. This data is used to create one of the largest multilingual geocoding platforms, identifying and rendering geographic coordinates for over 10 million places worldwide. The GDELT Project offers a vast array of information about global human society, with datasets available in open format for immediate download. It has been explored using CartoDB to produce maps and visualizations, such as the animated map exploring the geography of protests, cyber activity, and unrest, or the real-time map displaying the world's happiest and saddest news. The GDELT Project is a powerful tool for mapping the world's news media in real-time, with opportunities for customization and multilayer query mashups using the API or hourly data resources.