Shreya Aher, Dylan Torres & Paula Milanez Zafalon In this post, we assess the ratification status of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. It was adopted on December 20, 1988, by an international conference primarily made up of United Nations (UN) member states […]
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Noah Chang, Natalia Jamiolkowski & Liv Martin In this post, we explore the ratification status of the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space. This treaty was drafted by the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and adopted by the United Nations (UN) General […]
Arianah Bell, Chekwube Okunowo & Maxwell Patterson In this post, we analyze the ratification status of the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention. This treaty was adopted by the “Diplomatic Conference on an International Total Ban on Anti-Personnel Land Mines at Oslo on September 18, 1997” and it entered into force on March […]
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we learned how to use ggplot2’s geom_polygon function to create a map illustrating the ratification status of the 1966 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). In Part 2 of this tutorial, I will explain how to use the […]
Working with geographical data is not easy. But learning how to create choropleth maps is an important skill. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create maps in R with the ggplot2 package. The ggplot2 package is informed by Leland Wilkinson’s grammar of graphics. To get familiarized with this […]
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis hosts one of the most expansive depositories of economic data in the United States (US). The Federal Reserve Economic Data, better known as FRED, includes “hundreds of thousands of economic data timeseries from scores of national, international, public and private sources”. There are […]
The World Bank’s DataBank currently hosts over 80 databases that include “time series data on a multitude of topics for many countries around the world.” The World Development Indicators (WDI) database is probably the DataBank’s most popular, and a crucial resource for policy experts and academics. There are multiple ways […]
Should students and researchers interested in data science use R, the free software environment for statistical analysis and plotting? The simple answer is no. There are many open-source alternatives to R, such as Python. Many people also use other spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel, Google’s Sheets, or Apple’s Numbers […]
Júlia Oliveira Souza, Jeehae G. Park, & Carlos L. Yordán Background: Driven by a desire to prevent the atrocities of the Second World War, the authors of The Charter of the United Nations (1945) required the UN and its member states to establish the pillars of the current global human […]
Júlia Oliveira Souza Introduction Human Rights is a topic constantly studied and discussed, and there is much which can be revealed about international politics through the lens of this subject. The global human rights regime established and encouraged by the United Nations has changed the world’s behavior towards the matter, […]
