Open leeper opened 7 years ago
For event data, you could do a yearly slice from ICEWS (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/28075), which has nice monthly (or daily) slices in it, and it seems like there's an R package for dealing with it: https://github.com/ahalterman/phoxy.
Additionally, since ICEWS is both intra- and interstate, you could do some neat network modeling of the interstate data.
V-Dem is excellent for country-level data. There's an R package for accessing the WDI API too, which makes it super easy to get World Bank data
Will Lowe plays around with SOTU addresses for teaching text analysis.
Also, spurred by the above, in addition to the SOTU stuff (in quanteda), the comparative manifestos project has an R package w/API, ManifestoR.
Here's my list: https://github.com/briatte/srqm/wiki/Data
Qualitative: Elizabether Saunders's JFK chapter active citations: http://doi.org/10.5064/F68G8HMM write-up of teaching with that here: https://qdr.syr.edu/qdr-blog/teaching-qualitative-data-example
Oh, you seem to like cosponsorship data.
There's a lot of cosponsorship data for European parliaments in this repo:
… but it's probably not the kind of (messy, complex, not-standard) data that you want to use with e.g. students in a teaching setting.
On the text side:
maxent
package or directly here.
Original twitter thread: https://twitter.com/thosjleeper/status/875668146358714368