Dear colleagues, We are writing to announce the launch of the Subnational Geospatial Data Archive (SUNGEO): https://www.sungeo.org/ This project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, offers data on demography, politics, climate, violence, public health, weather, and terrain at a variety of geographic scales. It offers innovative tools to integrate spatially-misaligned data. The tools have been designed for researchers and analysts wishing to assess values of and relationships among variables across data sources, scales, integration methods, and geographic/historical contexts. The fundamental goal of SUNGEO is to improve research involving sub-national data in order to bolster knowledge of how societies develop, prosper, and change. The tools made available enable systematic, rigorous, transparent and reproducible approaches to create new datasets and account for differences in measurement, unit-levels, and primary sources during analyses. SUNGEO has both a user-friendly web interface, and an R-package on CRAN. We encourage you to check out the new website, and to explore data. The site is considered a beta version; the process has begun to continue to develop this innovative tool for launch 2.0. Best, Ken Kollman (University of Michigan) Yuri Zhukov (Georgetown University) Julia Lippman (University of Michigan) Yuri M. Zhukov Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service & Dept. of Govt., Georgetown University Visiting Assoc. Prof. of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (2023-2024) Adjunct Research Assoc. Prof., Center for Political Studies, ISR, University of Michigan Email (GU business): [log in to unmask] Email (HKS business): [log in to unmask] Email (UM business): [log in to unmask] Email (other business): [log in to unmask] Website: zhukovyuri.github.io ************************************************************** Political Methodology E-Mail List Editors: Yuan (Cecilia) Sui and Gechun Lin <[log in to unmask]> ************************************************************** Send messages to [log in to unmask] To join the list, cancel your subscription, or modify your subscription settings visit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/spm/mailing-list **************************************************************