There is increasingly cross-country-time-series data available on various economic, social, demographic, environmental, political and administrative indicators, provided by the UN (http://data.un.org/), World Bank API (https://goo.gl/UpL3t6), Human Rights Data project (http://www.humanrightsdata.com/), V-Dem project (https://www.v-dem.net/en/data/data-version-6-2/) etc. This rich data can be further supplemented by extracting information from online news and social media (e.g. GDELT project, http://www.gdeltproject.org/), creating […]