Solomon Messing

Former Director, Data Labs

Publications
decoded | Jul 18, 2018

How to break regression

Regression models are a cornerstone of modern social science. Yet social scientists can run into a lot of situations where regression...

report | Apr 9, 2018

Bots in the Twittersphere

An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings.

short reads | Jan 19, 2018

Very liberal or conservative legislators most likely to share news on Facebook

The most ideological members of Congress shared news stories on their Facebook pages more than twice as often as moderate legislators between Jan. 2, 2015, and July 20, 2017, according to a new Pew Research Center study that examined all official Facebook posts created by members of Congress in this period. The analysis included links […]

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