# Google Research — Introducing Groundsource: Turning news reports into data with Gemini

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-12T10:42:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Models affected: Gemini
- Source: https://research.google/blog/introducing-groundsource-turning-news-reports-into-data-with-gemini/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1360-introducing-groundsource-turning-news-reports-into-data-with-gemini

Google Research introduces Groundsource, a methodology that uses the Gemini LLM to extract structured historical disaster data from news reports, starting with a publicly available dataset of 2.6 million flash flood events across over 150 countries.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/introducing-groundsource-turning-news-reports-into-data-with-gemini/:

> Today, we’re introducing Groundsource, a new scalable methodology that leverages Gemini to transform unstructured global news into actionable, historical data. Our first, open-access Groundsource dataset for urban flash floods comprises 2.6 million records

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