A Guide to Event Data: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

A Guide to Event Data: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to provide a general overview of event data and its importance in the study of political conflict. In doing so, we illustrate how the level of methodological sophistication in the data collection, coding, and analyzing process has progressed from the earliest event-data projects in the 1970s to the most current ones today. Additionally, we highlight ongoing debates in the discipline as well as address key challenges that practitioners of event data will have to overcome to generate increasingly accurate and nuanced analyses in the future. 

Keywords

• Event data
• NLP
• conflict
• forecasting

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