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It would be great to have the composing variables available, i.e. uncompressed into a single number. I wanted to play around with multidimensional data about g

by dmos62 7y ago

It would be great to have the composing variables available, i.e. uncompressed into a single number. I wanted to play around with multidimensional data about global trends like these for a while now, but looking up all that data can be a drag, if possible at all.

yorwba 7y ago
The report also contains "domain scores" for "ongoing domestic and international conflict", "social safety and security" as well as "militarisation" in appendix C: http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2018/06/Global-Peace-Index-2018-2.pdf http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2018/06/Global-Peace... Of course those are still just single numbers aggregated from many different factors. However, the sources for those factors are named and are in many cases available online (although sometimes paywalled, or offering no convenient download functionality). Uppsala Conflict Data Program https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ IISS Armed Conflict Database (paywalled) https://www.iiss.org/publications/armed-conflict-database/ https://www.iiss.org/publications/armed-conflict-database/ UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unhcr-refugee-pop-stats https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unhcr-refugee-pop-stats Global Internal Displacement Database http://www.internal-displacement.org/database http://www.internal-displacement.org/database UNODC Crime Statistics https://dataunodc.un.org/crime https://dataunodc.un.org/crime The Economist Intelligence Unit (paywalled) https://data.eiu.com/ https://data.eiu.com/ World Prison Brief http://prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All http://prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population... Stockholm International Peace Institute https://sipri.org/databases https://sipri.org/databases United Nations Register of Conventional Arms https://www.unroca.org/ https://www.unroca.org/

by dmos62 7y ago

yorwba 7y ago

The report also contains "domain scores" for "ongoing domestic and international conflict", "social safety and security" as well as "militarisation" in appendix C: http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2018/06/Global-Peace-Index-2018-2.pdf http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2018/06/Global-Peace... Of course those are still just single numbers aggregated from many different factors. However, the sources for those factors are named and are in many cases available online (although sometimes paywalled, or offering no convenient download functionality). Uppsala Conflict Data Program https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ IISS Armed Conflict Database (paywalled) https://www.iiss.org/publications/armed-conflict-database/ https://www.iiss.org/publications/armed-conflict-database/ UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unhcr-refugee-pop-stats https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unhcr-refugee-pop-stats Global Internal Displacement Database http://www.internal-displacement.org/database http://www.internal-displacement.org/database UNODC Crime Statistics https://dataunodc.un.org/crime https://dataunodc.un.org/crime The Economist Intelligence Unit (paywalled) https://data.eiu.com/ https://data.eiu.com/ World Prison Brief http://prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All http://prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population... Stockholm International Peace Institute https://sipri.org/databases https://sipri.org/databases United Nations Register of Conventional Arms https://www.unroca.org/ https://www.unroca.org/