Emma Remy

In this post, we discuss reproducibility as a part of Pew Research Center's code review process.

As part of our quality control process, we review code with a series of interim reviews during a project and a formalized code check at the end.

In our March 2021 survey, we decided to take a fresh look at the consent language we used when asking Americans to give us their Twitter handles.

Having a sample of adult Twitter users allows researchers to filter out bots, minors, institutional accounts and international users.

Our data science work typically involves multiple researchers working collaboratively on code.

A 56% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents who use Twitter describe their political views as liberal or very liberal.

The findings of this analysis paint a nuanced picture of just how prevalent political speech is among U.S. adults on Twitter.

Overall, our survey found that 13% of U.S. adult Twitter users keep their feeds private.

Republican and Republican-leaning adult Twitter users are more likely than Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents to follow Trump.

United Kingdom legislators in the House of Lords and House of Commons tweeted more critical content of Trump’s recent visit to the nation.