What's New at the KEDS Website?

• Click here to go to a detailed history of the KEDS project written for the Summer 2006 issue of The Political Methodologist


• A coder's guide to coding: Former KEDS Research Assistant Joseph Pull writes about the problems coders face when using TABARI, and how best to remedy them in his Ode to Coding.


• TABARI -- the open-source, C-language, Linux OS, KEDS-compatible parser-coder. Version 0.5 is now available for the Macintosh OS-X and Linux operating systems.


• CAMEO Codebooks. CAMEO is our new system for coding events relevant to international mediations. A codebook is available in HTML and pdf format; CAMEO-coded data sets and dictionaries are on the web site, and our 2002 International Studies Association paper compares the CAMEO and WEIS coding frameworks.


• Slides from Workshop on Automated Content Analysis
  2003 Summer Conference on Political Methodology (University of Minnesota)
  Click here to go to an HTML version of the slides presented at the workshop.


• Paper: "Using Event Data to Monitor Contemporary Conflict in the Israel-Palestine Dyad" (ISA 2004, Montreal) Description of the forecasting work the KEDS project is doing for the swisspeace FAST project


• Paper: "A New Kind of Social Science: The Path Beyond Current (IR) Methodologies May Lie Beneath Them" (ISA 2004, Montreal) Pattern recognition and visualization methods inspired by Stephen Wolfram, applied to event data. Includes link to a web site where you can experiment with the methods and data.


• Analyzing International Event Data: A Handbook of Computer-Based Techniques -- this is a book-length guide to event data coding and analysis, based on the past decade of work at the KEDS project. A draft of the full manuscript is now available.


• Updated event data sets:
  Levant, through June 2004 (WEIS)
  former Yugoslavia, through July 2003 (WEIS)
  West Africa, through February 2002
  Pevehouse-Goldstein International Cooperation & Regional Conflicts event data sets for Bosnia, China, Cuba, Haiti, India, Levant, Somalia (1987-1997)


• Download ActorFilter program Vers. 0.8B1


• Download nexispider.pl program [Perl code for automating web downloads]


• Download TestRandomizer program [C program for generating multiple choice exams -- Mac and Linux]

LAST UPDATED: 11 JUNE 2006