Software

tidysynth

tidysynth is an R package that offers a tidy implementation of the synthetic control method. The package makes a number of needed improvements when implementing the method in R, allowing users a greater capacity to inspect, visualize, and tune a synthetic control model. Package is downloadable through CRAN and Github.

MELTT

meltt — merging event data by location, time, and type — is an R package that offers a methodology for systematically integrating disparate geospatial event data by leveraging information on spatio-temporal co-occurrence and event-specific metadata. Package is downloadable through CRAN and Github. Read “Integrating Conflict Event Data” for more on the motivation and implementation of the method.