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1/ In my "Quantitative Security" grad class, students "deconstruct" an observation from a widely used dataset: they pick an observation and see if its coding makes sense.
👇I walk through an observation that I deconstructed as a class demo.
👇I walk through an observation that I deconstructed as a class demo.
2/ The observation I deconstructed was the Correlates of War (correlatesofwar.org) interstate war dataset coding of the 1999 Kosovo war (BTW: the 20th anniversary of that war is next month)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War
3/ I don't ask the students to explore everything that is coded about a observation. Instead, they should pick one part of the coding to deconstruct.
In this case, I focus on COW's coding of the Kosovo war's participants. Here is the coding:
In this case, I focus on COW's coding of the Kosovo war's participants. Here is the coding:
