Pigeon Effect

Data Projects — Political Science, Quantified

Data-driven political science: interactive analyses and tools that test big claims about world politics against the numbers.

Anatomy of a Budget
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Anatomy of a Budget

Six of the world's largest economies, stripped to their 2025 budgets: where the money comes from, and where it goes.

2026-09
Geopolitical Indicators
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Geopolitical Indicators

Currencies, gold reserves, energy prices, satellites in orbit, shipping chokepoints and the AI race, on one screen, daily.

2026-08
AI Citation Network
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AI Citation Network

Nearly two million AI papers, weighed by who actually gets cited. China, the US and the EU, mapped by who writes with whom.

2025-12
Mapping Forced Migration
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Mapping Forced Migration

States push people back across borders all the time. The world's migration statistics barely notice. This map does.

2025-07
Faces of Diplomacy
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Faces of Diplomacy

How China's state media pictures world leaders: five years of faces, read for emotion, set against UN voting.

2025-03
UNGD Linguistic Evolution
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UNGD Linguistic Evolution

A basic NLP pass over UN General Debate speeches, 1946 – 2022: thirteen text measures, from pronouns to sentiment, by year.

2024-08
UNGA Voting Coincidence
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UNGA Voting Coincidence

Eighty years of UN General Assembly votes, distilled into who stands with whom, and who quietly drifts away.

2024-03
Climate KOLs on Twitter
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Climate KOLs on Twitter

Who really steers the online climate debate? Not the household names. A network map of the 200 voices that do.

2022-05