KEDS The Kansas Event Data System

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KEDS
The Kansas Event Data System

Dataset   KEDS

Description

GulfLDays.net directed multirelational temporal network with 174 vertices and 57131 arcs. From 'leads' Gulf event data, granularity is 1 day.
GulfLMonths.net directed multirelational temporal network with 174 vertices and 57131 arcs. From 'leads' Gulf event data, granularity is 1 month.
GulfLDow.net directed multirelational temporal network with 174 vertices and 57131 arcs. From 'leads' Gulf event data, in day of the week classes.
GulfADays.net directed multirelational temporal network with 202 vertices and 304401 arcs. From Gulf event data, granularity is 1 day.
GulfAMonths.net directed multirelational temporal network with 202 vertices and 304401 arcs. From Gulf event data, granularity is 1 month.
LevantDays.net directed multirelational temporal network with 485 vertices and 196364 arcs. From Levant event data, granularity is 1 day.
LevantMonths.net directed multirelational temporal network with 485 vertices and 196364 arcs. From Levant event data, granularity is 1 month.
BalkanDays.net directed multirelational temporal network with 325 vertices and 78667 arcs. From Balkan event data, granularity is 1 day.
BalkanMonths.net directed multirelational temporal network with 325 vertices and 78667 arcs. From Balkan event data, granularity is 1 month.

Download

GulfLDays.net (ZIP, 239K)
GulfLMonths.net (ZIP, 197K)
GulfLDow.net (ZIP, 213K)
GulfADays.net (ZIP, 1078K)
GulfAMonths.net (ZIP, 941K)
LevantDays.net (ZIP, 855K)
LevantMonths.net (ZIP, 735K)
BalkanDays.net (ZIP, 335K)
BalkanMonths.net (ZIP, 288K)

Background

KEDS - The Kansas Event Data System uses automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa. These data are used in statistical early warning models to predict political change. The ten-year project is based in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas; it has been funded primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

KEDS data setsfrom KEDS data collection.

Gulf data set: This data set covers the states of the Gulf region and the Arabian peninsula for the period 15 April 1979 to 31 March 1999. The source texts prior to 10 June 97 were located using a NEXIS search command specifically designed to return relevant data. There are two versions of the data: a set coded from the lead sentences only (57,000 events), and a set coded from full stories (304,000 events).
There are some errors in the GulfAll data. Events 118196 and 118197 have REUT-0 in place of the date; and in event 173526 the first actor is missing. In Gulf99All.dat the wrong dates are replaced with 890319, and the incomplete event is skiped.

Levant data set: Folder containing WEIS-coded events (N=196,337) for dyadic interactions within the following set of countries: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria, USA, and USSR/Russia. Coverage is April 1979 to June 2004. TABARI coding dictionaries are also included.
There are some errors (333) in data set - relation codes 012], O24, O53, 213] are replaced with012, 024, 053, 213 in Levant.dat. Some events don't have description codes - they are marked with *** in relation labels in *.net files.

Balkans data set, 1989-2003: Folder containing WEIS-coded events (N = 78,667) for the major actors (including ethnic groups) involved in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Coverage is April 1989 through July 2003. TABARI coding dictionaries are included in the folder.
There are some errors (197) in data set - relation codes ---], O24, O53 are replaced with 000, 024, 053 in Balkan.dat. Some events don't have description codes - they are marked with ***in relation labels in *.net files.

The original data sets are on MAC files. They should be saved as PC files before processing.

History

• Program Recode (in Delphi) by Vladimir Batagelj, Ljubljana, July 25, 2003
• Program KEDSrec adapted for KEDS from Recode; Gulf (leads) data recoded into Pajek's format, by Vladimir Batagelj, Ljubljana, November 3, 2003
• Support for multiple relations networks added to program KEDSrec by Vladimir Batagelj, Ljubljana, November 22, 2004
• KedsR - functionality of KEDSrec implemented in R; Gulf (leads) data recoded into Pajek's format (days, months, day of the week), by Vladimir Batagelj, Ljubljana, November 27, 2004
• WeisR - commands from KedsR adapted for WEIS format (similar to KEDS but TAB delimited); Balkan and Levant data recoded into Pajek's format (days, months), by Vladimir Batagelj, Ljubljana, November 28, 2004
• Gulf99All is a large data set - sapply commands in KedsR had to be replaced by while loops; Gulf (all) data recoded into Pajek's format (days, months), by Vladimir Batagelj, Ljubljana, November 29, 2004
  

References

• StuffIt - uncompress program for SIT files