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Are more ideological European political parties more popular on Twitter?

Are more ideological European political parties more popular on Twitter?

It can be hard to determine whether parties near the ends of the ideology scale are more popular on the platform than moderate parties.
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Kat Devlin
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How we check numbers and facts at Pew Research Center

How we check numbers and facts at Pew Research Center

All of the material we release goes through a rigorous verification process we call a “number check.”
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Anna Brown
Interpreting and validating topic models

Interpreting and validating topic models

Interpreting topics from a model can be more difficult than it may initially seem.
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Patrick van Kessel
How public and private Twitter users in the U.S. compare

How public and private Twitter users in the U.S. compare

Twitter is a primarily public-facing social media platform. But what do its private users look like?
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Emma Remy
Lessons learned from more than 20 years of asking about Americans’ online news habits

Lessons learned from more than 20 years of asking about Americans’ online news habits

Americans’ online news habits have changed since the mid-1990s, and so have the ways that Pew Research Center asks about these habits.
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Elisa Shearer
Using tidyverse tools with Pew Research Center survey data in R

Using tidyverse tools with Pew Research Center survey data in R

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

Working with geography in survey data

When geographic information is available in survey data, it’s not always at the level researchers are looking for.
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Brad Jones
Who’s home and who isn’t? The challenges of conducting face-to-face interviews in Jordan

Who’s home and who isn’t? The challenges of conducting face-to-face interviews in Jordan

To obtain a representative sample of the public, interviews should happen at a time when everyone has a chance of being contacted.
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Laura Silver
What happens when a survey estimate doesn’t match a known benchmark

What happens when a survey estimate doesn’t match a known benchmark

From time to time, data collected through surveys doesn’t match sources that are widely acknowledged as accurate.
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Neha Sahgal
Overcoming the limitations of topic models with a semi-supervised approach

Overcoming the limitations of topic models with a semi-supervised approach

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