Patrick van Kessel

Pew Research Center recently sought to translate more than 11,000 open-ended survey responses into English.

Republicans and Democrats differ substantially over several sources of meaning in life, including faith, freedom, health and hobbies.

Here are six facts about where Americans find meaning in life and how those responses have shifted over the past four years.

Family is preeminent for most publics but work, material well-being and health also play a key role.

The final post in our series examines how topic models can and can’t help when classifying large amounts of text.

Keyword oversampling can be a powerful way to analyze uncommon subsets of text data.

The outbreak has dramatically changed Americans’ lives and relationships over the past year. We asked people to tell us about their experiences – good and bad – in living through this moment in history.

Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.

When asked to describe how the COVID-19 outbreak has affected them negatively, Democrats and Republicans are divided on the subject of masks.

Videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively and discuss conspiracy theories.