This week, we learned about the Poisson distribution, which helps us predict how often something happens in a certain time or place. We talked about using it with our datasets on political violence in India and the US.

After spring break, we had our first class. The professor gave us two new datasets: one for India and one for the US, both from ACLED about political violence.

Both datasets are from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) organization and contain information on political and other forms of violence across these two countries.