Datasets to include

[leeper]

• Country-level
  • Quality of Government
  • V-Dem
• Survey data
  • ANES
  • GSS
  • ESS
• Time-series
  • ?? QoG panel
  • IPSOS UK opinion trends
  • ?? Financial data
• Experimental data
  • Gerber, Green, and Larimer
• Quasi-experimental data
  • ??
• Social media
  • ??
• Parliamentary voting data
  • ??
• Event data
  • ICEWS
• Network data
  • Victor's Congressional cosponsorship data
• Text data
  • CMP
  • ?? Media content dataset
• Qualitative
  • ???
• Miscellaneous articles
  • Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice
  • Fearon and Laitin

Original twitter thread: https://twitter.com/thosjleeper/status/875668146358714368

[adamlauretig]

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.

[andrewheiss]

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

[andrewheiss]

Will Lowe plays around with SOTU addresses for teaching text analysis.

[adamlauretig]

Also, spurred by the above, in addition to the SOTU stuff (in quanteda), the comparative manifestos project has an R package w/API, ManifestoR.

[briatte]

Here's my list: https://github.com/briatte/srqm/wiki/Data

[adam3smith]

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

[briatte]

Oh, you seem to like cosponsorship data.

There's a lot of cosponsorship data for European parliaments in this repo:

https://github.com/briatte/parlnet

… 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.

[conjugateprior]

On the text side:

• UK parliamentary speeches and various other bits of Hansard are available via twfy.
• New York Times leads and subjects, and also Congressional Bill titles for text classification examples are available as inside the maxent package or directly here.
• I also teach with this Commons debate on abortion bara-data, analyzed by Bara et al. 2007.