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Visualizations are an important part of work that we do in the social sciences, but they are not always easy to make or construct using Stata, R, or Python.
There are some inexpensive and freely available tools for making visualizations, such as:
The challenge with these tools is replicability, but they can work well for presentations and publications.
This is a visualization I created for a project on the distribution of votes of the UN Peaceful Uses Resolution. Years can be toggled by clicking on the vote year below.
This is Gantt chart made using Flourish that shows the layers of economic sanctions imposed by senders on North Korea (DPRK) from 1990-2023. This chart was featured in a paper that Charmaine N. Willis and I wrote for Global Studies Quarterly in 2024.
This map below is a remake of a Google Sheets map that appeared in a recent article that I wrote with Charmaine N. Willis on the impact of US troops and troop deployments on the likelihood of trade-based sanctions busting (forthcoming in Foreign Policy Analysis, 2026).