This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. We live in a time when data is both overabundant and ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In my first post about topic models, I discussed what topic models are, how they ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. (Related posts: An intro to topic models for text analysis, Making sense of ...

Collection and especially analysis of open-ended survey responses are relatively rare in the discipline and when conducted are almost exclusively done through human coding. We present an alternative, ...

The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 2013), pp. 613-639 (27 pages) The WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs contain nearly 77,000 reports of incidents in the US-led Afghanistan war, ...