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The JPR Best Visualization Award 2020 goes to Therese Anders

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Vincent
Date01 March 2021
DOI10.1177/0022343321992076
Published date01 March 2021
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2020
goes to
Therese Anders
The committee consisting of Cassy Dorff (Vanderbilt University), Anita Gohdes (Hertie School of Governance) and
Nils W Metternich (University College London) has awarded the eighth JPR Best Visualization Award to Therese
Anders (Hertie School Data Science Lab / SCRIPTS). The prize-winning publication is a research article titled
‘Territorial Control in Civil Wars: Theory and Measurement using Machine Learning’ and was published as part of
the Special Issue on Innovations in Concepts and Measurement for the Study of Peace and Conflict (Journal of Peace
Research 57(6):701–714). The article establishes a measure for territorial control of ar med actors, a cen tral concept to
the study of civil wars. Assuming that territorial control can be conceptualized as an unobserved latent variable, the
article implements a Hidden Markov Model to estimate territorial control at a 0.25 decimal degree minimum
diameter hexagon grid cell resolution. Clear and self-explanatory visualizations are effectively used to illustrate the
conceptual approach of the study, explain the theoretical framework employed, provide spatio-temporal insights to
the territorial control estimates, and plot the outcome of a validation study. The committee found that this use of
excellent visualizations, throughout the article, demonstrates our discipline’s state of the art and therefore Therese
Anders is a truly deserving winner of this year’s JPR Best Visualization Award.
The award is USD 500.

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