Miscellaneous
Usual disclaimers apply.Some data sources
Just a personal, unsystematic collection. See, for instance, PolData initiated by Erik Gahner Larsen for more.environment/energy
- BioTIME: global database of assemblage time series for quantifying and understanding biodiversity change
- China's Global Energy Finance
- Climate Monitoring: by National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA
- ECOLEX : an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP
- EJAtlas: Global Atlas of Environmental Justice
- EWG's Farm Subsidy Database
- Global Energy Monitor: an open guide to the world’s energy system
- InforMEA: information on Multilateral Environmental Agreements
- MeCCO: Media and Climate Change Observatory
- MRLC: the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
- Net Zero Tracker
- Ordnance Survey: the most detailed and accurate view of Great Britain’s landscape
- terra-i: an eye on habitat change
- UK CAP Payments: details of amounts received by UK beneficiaries for schemes covered by the EU's Common Agricultural Policy
- World Resources Institute
IR/IPE
- China Visits: a dataset of Chinese leaders’ foreign visits
- DDR: the Diplometrics Diplomatic Representation dataset
- DEMIG: Determinants of International Migration
- DESTA: Design of Trade Agreements Database
- Economic Policy Uncertainty Index
- IPOD: the Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset
- International Travel of the PRC Leadership
- MIPD: the "Most Important Problem" (seen by Americans) Dataset
- Political Risk Insurance
- UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset
- WEP: World Economics and Politics Dataverse
comparative politics
- Causes and Consequences of Electoral Violence: England and Wales, 1832–1914
- CCVG: Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer
- CLD: Comparative Legislators Database
- EVRR: the Extraterritorial Rights and Restrictions dataset
- Global Leadership Project: offering biographical information on a wide array of leaders in most countries
- GLI: the Global Leader Ideology dataset
- LobbyFacts: exposing lobbying in the European institutions
- OPAMED: the One-Party Membership Dataset
- PolEx: a measure of political experience of leaders
- QAROT: Quota Adoption and Reform Over Time (gender quotas in elections)
- State Capacity Dataset: Leviathan’s latent dimensions
- SWIID: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database
- TED: the Technocratic and Education Dataset (education and employment data of heads of government worldwide)
- WomanStats: a crossnational compilation of data, statistics, and maps on the status of women worldwide
conflit
- ARC: Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns
- AMAR: All Minorities at Risk
- Fragile States Index
- GDELT: monitoring the world's news media
- HDX: humanitarian data exchange
- HiSCoD: Historical Social Conflict Database
- ICBe: International Crisis Behaviors Events
- Latent Human Rights Scores
- Mass Mobilization Project
- MMDD: the Military Mutinies and Defections Database
- PGMD: the Pro-Government Militias Database
- The Rebel Contraband Dataset
- TIES: the Threat and Imposition of Sanctions
- UNPMM: UN Peace Mission Mandates, 1991-2020
- troopdata: US global military deployments, 1950–2020
electoral/legislative/party politics
- Candidates in American General Elections
- CSES: Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
- CLEA: Constituency-Level Elections Archive
- CNEP: the Comparative National Elections Project
- EU-NED: the European NUTS-level election dataset
- MAPLE Parliamentary Datasets: full-text and annotated corpora of parliamentary speeches in the legislatures of six European democracies
- PARTYPRESS: a new comparative database of parties’ press releases
- voteview: US congressional roll call votes
others
- CSPP: the Correlates of State Policy Project
- Menino Survey of Mayors: the only nationally representative survey of American mayors
- The Norwegian Citizen Panel
- worldcup: a comprehensive database on the FIFA World Cup
Some packages
- ggridges: Ridgeline plots in ggplot2
- rayshader: 2D and 3D mapping and data visualization
- rstatix: pipe-friendly framework for basic statistical tests in R
- patchwork: the composer of ggplots
- academicons: an icon font for academics
- corrr: explore correlations in R
- MODIS: download and processing framework for MODIS imagery
- getSpatialData: query, preview, download and preprocess multiple kinds of spatial data
- finalfit: quickly create elegant regression results tables and plots when modelling in R
- PCAtools: everything principal components analysis
- sjmisc: data and variable transformation functions
- geofacet: geographical faceting with ggplot2
- flextable: table framing
- ggdensity: interpretable visualizations of bivariate density estimates
- geomtextpath: create curved text paths in ggplot2