Mapping the United Nations Treaty Collection

In this project, students enrolled in Drew University’s Semester in the United Nations (UN), Principles in International Law, and International Human Rights have been and will be collecting data on the ratification status of conventions deposited in the United Nations Treaty Collection and creating a choropleth map that captures the geographic representation of the collected data.

This assignment helps students learn about three important parts of a data science workflow:

  1. The collection and the structuring of data;
  2. Generating a map that captures the geographic representation of the collected data; and
  3. Writing a short post that analyzes and interprets the data.

The students’ observations were recorded in a dataset, using a codebook prepared by Professor Yordan. All the datasets are available in the World Politics Data Lab’s GitHub repository. This page also includes information on how the data was structured and each variable’s categories.


Most Recent Analyses: