A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center.
For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org.
I wrote an introductory blog post about how to access and analyze Pew Research Center survey data with R, a free, open-source software for statistical analysis. The post showed how to perform tasks using the survey package.
A lack of attention to detail in one research project can have compounding effects on future research projects.
Geocoding is the process of mapping an address or a location name to a point on Earth’s surface using latitude and longitude coordinates…
In 2017, Pew Research Center published an analysis of Google search trends related to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The analysis…
Several posts on this blog have examined unsupervised methods of natural language processing. These algorithms and models can help…
Regression models are a cornerstone of modern social science. Yet social scientists can run into a lot of situations where regression…
At Pew Research Center, we regularly use APIs to collect information for the studies we produce. Web APIs provide a means of communication between websites and users, structured by rules.
Pew Research Center releases its survey data publicly as IBM SPSS files with the .sav extension. But if you don’t have access to SPSS, there are free, open-source tools available to analyze and make use of the data.
An introduction to the methodological musings, puzzles and tangles that you would see if you could flip those picture-perfect research products over.
This is a blog about research methods and behind-the-scenes technical matters at Pew Research Center. To get our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org.
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