University of Oxford
Politics & International Relations · St John's College Centre for Technology and Society
Open research

Data & software

Original datasets and open-source packages from my research, hosted on GitHub, CRAN, PyPI, AidData, and the Harvard Dataverse.

Datasets

Datasets

Original data built for my research, released openly.

Project Performance Database (PPD) 2.1

The world’s largest dataset of international development projects with quantitative measures of overall performance: evaluations of more than 20,000 foreign aid projects in 183 countries between 1956 and 2016, by 12 bilateral and multilateral agencies. Developed with Dan Honig and Bradley Parks.

Software

Software

Open-source packages for missing-data analysis using machine learning.

MIDASverse is a suite of Python and R packages for missing-data analysis using machine learning, developed with Thomas Robinson. Introduced in “The MIDAS Touch”, Political Analysis 2022, and “Efficient Multiple Imputation”, JSS 2023.

MIDASpy Python · PyPI Accurate and efficient multiple imputation with deep learning.
rMIDAS R · CRAN R equivalent of MIDASpy.
citest Python · PyPI Tests conditional independence in incomplete regression analysis with machine learning.
citestR R · CRAN R equivalent of citest.

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