Becky Hurwitz

I’m taking Information Visualization and have been looking around for interesting data sets to work with for my first assignment.  Ultimately, I’ll probably try to work with a data set measuring information about thermostats and energy usage, but for this early assignment, I’m looking around for data sets of development, governance, peace and conflict information.

I found some data sets that I can work with, some groups doing interesting things with development, governance, and peace data.

US Gov Data Sets – data.gov

PRIO Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) — http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/

World Governance Indicators, World Bank — http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/resources.htm

Millenium Development Goals (MDG) Indicators, UN — http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) — http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/UCDP/data_and_publications/datasets.htm

Global Peace Index — http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/home.php
An index “that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of that peace.”  The U.S. is 83rd of 144.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) — http://www.sipri.org/databases
Facts on international relations and security trends
SIPRI multilateral peace operations database
SIPRI military expenditure database
SIPRI arms transfers database

Some interesting ordered lists on wikipedia:

list of Ongoing Conflicts
list of Countries by Population Size
list of Countries by GDP per Capita
List of countries by refugee population
List of cities by population
List of countries by urban population