Americans’ online news habits have changed since the mid-1990s, and so have the ways that Pew Research Center asks about these habits.

The first step in any data analysis is often to explore the data with simple but powerful summaries. The “tidyverse” is here to help.

When geographic information is available in survey data, it’s not always at the level researchers are looking for.

To obtain a representative sample of the public, interviews should happen at a time when everyone has a chance of being contacted.

From time to time, data collected through surveys doesn’t match sources that are widely acknowledged as accurate.

Difficulties can arise when researchers attempt to use topic models to measure content. A “semi-supervised” approach can help.

Measuring the content and meaning of videos is an important research goal for social scientists.

You may be familiar with surveys that ask you to rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10. Some use a 0–10 scale instead.

A lack of attention to detail in one research project can have compounding effects on future research projects.