The ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data) project consists of structured data on political violence and protest events across the world. While focusing in conflict studies and political science, several of its research values and methodologies align deeply with the digital humanities.
ACLED’s value: Rigorous, time-stamped, geo-tagged data on events.
Digital Humanities (DH) alignment: DH often emphasizes transforming qualitative human experiences into structured, analyzable data. ACLED’s event codings allow for critical inquiry into human behavior, governance, resistance, and agency across time and space.
Data Visualization and Storytelling
ACLED: Provides visuals and dashboards for exploring trends.
DH: Digital humnanities relys on maps and other visuals to highlight and emphasize key points while also providing refernces to the data