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Measuring the content and meaning of videos is an important research goal for social scientists, but the tools for analyzing them at scale lag behind new advances.
Understanding how the numeric labels on scales might influence survey responses is an area of ongoing investigation for researchers.
A lack of attention to detail in one research project can have compounding effects on future research projects.
Social scientists are increasingly adopting machine learning methods to analyze large amounts of text, images and other kinds of data.
Regression is a statistical method that allows us to look at the relationship between two variables, while holding other factors equal.
Researchers and designers at Pew Research Center often create faceted information graphics, commonly known as “small multiples,” to…
In a recent study about online opt-in polling, Pew Research Center compared a variety of weighting approaches and found that complex…
Commercial voter files hold great promise for studying certain aspects of American politics. These files, compiled by private vendors from…
Geocoding is the process of mapping an address or a location name to a point on Earth’s surface using latitude and longitude coordinates…
In 2017, Pew Research Center published an analysis of Google search trends related to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The analysis…
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