Link to the dissertation “Food, Familiarity, and Forecasting: Modeling Coups with Computational Methods”. If you read any of it, read the acknowledgements as those are about some of the wonderful people who deserve the credit for its completion. https://t.co/iFIRKFlEmn (1/5)
I've (finally) released an update to my text geoparsing library. Mordecai 3 lets you pass in a document, and returns the place names from the text and their geographic coordinates. It's built on #spacy and Geonames and uses a new neural similarity model.
@HaerRoos and I are happy to share our new piece, online first @JournalofCW. Special thanks to @WarAndCoffee for the opportunity to produce this piece:
"The Pitfalls and Potential of the Systematic Collection of Data on Child Soldier Recruitment"
https://t.co/hBl8ZXjvAD
Excellent review on the landscape of conflict event data. As a consumer of all reviewed data sources, it's important to consider what each prioritizes when analyzing the data for a particular question or use-case.
New Open Article on how to collect and source political violence data:
"Political instability patterns are obscured by conflict dataset scope conditions, sources, and coding choices"
https://t.co/yNdn1dhfvd
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