Maps – The Quantitative Peace

Mapping subnational administrative areas

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Michael Flynn — No Comments ↓

Between teaching classes and a couple of projects that I’ve been working on lately, I’ve been finding Stata’s spmap command to be a really useful tool for generating maps to display data. One project in particular has involved the collection of some new data for examining various developmental outcomes at the subnational level. To some extent this is new territory for me, but the idea of being able to display the geographic distribution of some of the key variables that we’re interested in was really attractive. I’ve found shapefiles for generating global maps, as well as maps of the US, but Continue reading Mapping subnational administrative areas→

Mapping Leadership Tenure

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Michael A. Allen — No Comments ↓

Confession time. One of my favorite subreddits on reddit is r/mapporn; a subreddit dedicated to the most visually appealing maps from all historical periods and dealing with a variety of topics. We, at QP, cannot get our fill of maps as we (especially Michael Flynn) have blogged about it a few times (see here, here, and here). Yesterday, this map of leadership tenure was posted from The Economist: The cutoff date of 1945 seems like a controversial choice and the single image of the map did not come with clear coding rules as how to decisions were made. Being familiar with Continue reading Mapping Leadership Tenure→

USGS map sale

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Michael A. Allen — No Comments ↓

The United States Geologic Survey is having a deep sale on hundreds of maps. To better decorate my office, I am picking up a few. Two that might be of interest to the political science crowd: US Command distribution across the globe: The historical presidential elections map is also good:

The Atlas of the Real World

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Michael A. Allen — 1 Comment ↓

The Atlas of the Real World provides a potentially powerful visual tool that re-sizes nation-states on a globe based on their rank or gravity on particular issues: The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps Starting with basic land mass, the 18-globe series has some highlights such as Net Tourism, use of airplanes, and Post-WWII war deaths. Obviously it is not a new technique, but the quality and breadth of Continue reading The Atlas of the Real World→