Redacting identifying information with computational methods in large text data
In this post, we discuss three methods to identify and remove specific words and phrases in unstructured text data.
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About 1 in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serve Mexican food
Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.
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Key facts about Hispanic eligible voters in 2024
An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.
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Key facts about Black eligible voters in 2024
The number of Black eligible voters in the United States is projected to reach 34.4 million in November 2024 after several years of modest growth.
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Key facts about Asian American eligible voters in 2024
Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades and since 2020.
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Tuning Out: Americans on the Edge of Politics
Untethered from partisan politics and uninterested in keeping up with political news, here is how some Americans view the current state of U.S. politics.
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U.S. centenarian population is projected to quadruple over the next 30 years
The number of Americans ages 100 and older is projected to more than quadruple over the next three decades.
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2023 saw some of the biggest, hardest-fought labor disputes in recent decades
The nearly four-month actors’ strike against major Hollywood production studios was the second-largest labor dispute in the United States in at least three decades.
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10 facts about Americans and alcohol as ‘Dry January’ begins
Here are 10 key facts about Americans’ behaviors and attitudes when it comes to drinking alcohol and how these have changed over time.
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Black Americans are more likely than others to say they see problematic news coverage of Black people
About four-in-ten Black Americans (39%) say they extremely or fairly often see or hear news coverage about Black people that is racist or racially insensitive.
