This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. We live in a time when data is both overabundant and ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In two earlier posts on this blog, I introduced topic models and explored some ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. If you’ve ever had to analyze a set of documents — such as social media posts, ...

Looking to gain greater insights into surveys? This third part of a series on NLP and survey data explores Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a popular tool to ferret out elusive themes in text comments, ...

Nobody likes a Monday morning quarterback. He’s the guy who always knows exactly how to run a play to score a touchdown…the day after the game. As much as the postgame know-it-all gets under ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The possible existence of a research-practice gap is the topic of a long-standing debate in the field of public administration. In this ...

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