Tools & data

POLECAT event data: Some resources for the POLECAT event data, which is available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/POLECAT.

CAMEO Event Type Ontology: A web version of the CAMEO event types ontology, from the official PDF codebook on Phil Schrodt’s website.

et1000: the 1,000 most common Estonian words: Estonian is a somewhat boutique language. At the time I did this, you couldn’t find a list of the most commonly used Estonian words online, so I made this.

R packages

I wrote and maintain several open source R packages:

icews: The ICEWS event data consists of more than 270 million event data records extracted from global news stories. The raw data is delivered via dataverse. The icews R package automates the process of keeping an up to date local copy, using either a file- or SQLite-based storage backend.

states: I used to frequently work with global data for independent states. This package has some utility functions for making it easier to work with the two major lists of state system membership, Gleditsch & Ward and COW.

spduration: Implements a time-varying covariate split-population duration regression model for survival data where an unknown portion of the cases are immune from failure. These are sometimes also called cure models.