Gary King Dataverse [http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/king]

Description:

Gary King's Dataverse site provides downloadable replication datasets that are used in his published research. Some of the datasets are available for downloading in different formats to fit the statistical software of the users. Some of the datasets have subsets not just for downloading, but also for online analysis.

Datasets on Gary King's Dataverse site are searchable by both "cataloging information" and "variable information." There is also a general guide for data users. Datasets are presented with related research papers.

Download Datasets:

Datasets on Gary King's Dataverse site are free. Before downloading the datasets, users will be requested to agree to the "Terms of Use," and the citation information can be found on the "Citation Information" page of each research.
Gary King Dataverse

Software:

Professor Gary King also shares his statistical and other programs that he and his colleagues developed and used for event data analysis. See the Software page on Gary King's website.

Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Data - Version 3.1 [http://www.correlatesofwar.org/COW2 Data/MIDs/MID310.html]

Description:

Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Data is collected by the Correlation of War Project and it provides information about international conflicts among states. MID data version 3.0 covered the time period of 1816-2001, and the newest 3.1 version of the data updated the corrections of 200 problematic cases.

Download Dataset:

Along with the data sets and documentation are the suggested formats for the citation of the data sets.
MID Data

Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) [http://web.ku.edu/~keds/]

Datasets:

The Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) uses an automated coding system to collect event data from news reports. The following datasets can be downloaded directly by users:

Coding Schemes:

CAMEO (Conflict and Mediation Event Observations) and WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) are the coding schemes used for generating these event datasets.

Software:

You can use these system and dictionaries to collect your own event data:

The KEDS coding software and dictionaries.
The TABARI (Textual Analysis By Augmented Replacement Instructions) is the open source, most recent automated coding system developed by KEDS.

World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) [http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/05211]

and

Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) [http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/07767]

Description:

"The WEIS Project dataset is a record of the flow of action and response between countries (as well as non-governmental actors, e.g., NATO) reflected in public events reported daily in the New York Times from January 1966 through December 1978." - ICPSR

"The Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) is a longitudinal computer-based library of daily international and domestic events or interactions. The event records in this file describe the actions of approximately 135 countries in the world, both toward one another and within their domestic environments." - ICPSR

Download:

Both of the datasets and their related documents can be downloaded from ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research), study numbers: 05211 and 07767.
**Before you download the dataset, ICPSR will ask you to log in. If it's your first time downloading data from ICPSR, you need to register using a computer on campus, so that ICPSR can recognize you as affiliated with a member institution from the Rutgers IP address. Once you are registered, you will be able to log in and download the dataset from anywhere with an Internet connection.
WEIS

Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA) [http://vranet.com/IDEA/]

Datasets:

The Integrated Data for Events Analysis (IDEA) is an interaction event dataset of the whole world from 1990 to 2004, coded from the Reuters newswire service. The site includes detailed information about the event typologies used to code the data.

Download:

Download the entire dataset from Gary King's Dataverse site.
1. Click on the "Documentation, Data and Analysis" tab
2. Go to the section "5. Data-Original Files"
IDEA

Subset Extraction:

This IDEA 1990-2004 dataset is huge. Gary King mentions that there is the first version of the data which can be downloaded and Dale Thomas wrote a Windows program to extract data from these large files. For more information, see King's International Dyadic Events page.