Data Management in International Relations: Expanding the EUGene Software Program

尤金是一个软件程序，学者们用它来建立定量数据集，以分析国际冲突。 该软件简化了一系列繁琐而困难的数据准备任务，根据用户的选择将不同格式的输入数据集的数据合并为输出数据集。 尤金还生成与冲突引发和升级的重要预期效用理论有关的变量的数据。 尤金最初是在美国国家科学基金会的资助下开发的，并于1998年公开发布。 它被扩大了，其他增加了没有NSF的资金。 尤金可从http://www.eugenesoftware.org.The免费下载到研究社区，目前的项目进一步开发了尤金软件。 在这一点上，关键分析已经完成了使用预期的效用数据产生的尤金;继续程序开发将继续集中在扩大程序的数据管理方面。 在下一阶段，首席研究员将向程序添加额外的用户数据集并处理有问题的用户数据，添加另一个分析单元以创建数据集，从而更好地分析争议升级和冲突加入行为的过程，添加额外的冲突数据，跟踪数据集以便于复制，提供额外的联盟数据，并实施各种其他小的改进。 在今后两年内，还可能根据用户的要求增加其他扩充项目。 尤金的持续发展为定量国际关系研究人员提供了一种工具，可以促进新的研究并扩展正在进行的研究议程。

EUGene is a software program that scholars use to build quantitative data sets in order to analyze international conflict. The software routinizes a set of data preparation tasks that are cumbersome and difficult, merging data from input data sets with differing formats into output data sets according to easily specified user choices. EUGene also generates data for variables concerned with an important expected utility theory of conflict initiation and escalation. EUGene was initially developed under a prior National Science Foundation grant and released publicly in 1998. It was expanded, with other additions made without NSF funding. EUGene is available for free download to the research community from http://www.eugenesoftware.org.The current project further develops the EUGene software. To this point, key analyses have been accomplished using the expected utility data generated by EUGene; continued program development will remain focused on expanding the program's data management aspects. In this next phase, the Principal Investigator adds additional user data sets to the program and deals with problematic user data, adds another unit of analysis to create datasets to better analyze processes of dispute escalation and conflict joining behavior, adds additional conflict data, tracks data sets for easier replication, makes additional alliance data available, and implements various other small improvements. Other expansion items may be added over the next two years in response to user requests. Continued development of EUGene provides the community of quantitative international relations researchers with a tool that facilitates new research and expands ongoing research agendas.