decoded May 13, 2024 Measuring partisanship in Europe: How online survey questions compare with phone polls We compared three different online survey methods in certain countries to see which one would most closely replicate our phone results.
decoded Mar 28, 2024 Reproducibility as part of code quality control In this post, we discuss reproducibility as a part of Pew Research Center’s code review process.
decoded Jan 12, 2024 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.
decoded Nov 30, 2023 How we adopted Kubernetes for our data science infrastructure In this post, we delve into Kubernetes ? the back-end tool that powers the systems our research team interacts with.
decoded Oct 12, 2023 Improving our website’s accessibility with alt text for charts Our approach to alt text ? and overall website accessibility ? has evolved in recent years.
decoded Sep 6, 2023 How adding a ‘Don’t know’ response option can affect cross-national survey results In our surveys, people are much less likely to skip questions online than when speaking to interviewers in person or on the phone; we explore how offering a “Don’t know” option in online surveys affects results.
decoded Jun 28, 2023 What Twitter users say versus what they do: Comparing survey responses with observed behaviors We explore the connection between Americans’ survey responses and their digital activity using data from our past Twitter research.
decoded May 22, 2023 Assessing the effects of generation using age-period-cohort analysis In this piece, we demonstrate how to conduct age-period-cohort analysis, a statistical tool, to determine the effects of generation.
decoded May 11, 2023 Can machines compete with humans in transcribing audio? A case study using sermons from U.S. religious services To test whether machine transcription would be practical for studies of sermons in 2019 and 2020, we compared human and machine transcriptions of snippets from a random sample of 200 audio and video sermons.
decoded May 5, 2023 Identifying partisan ‘leaners’ in cross-national surveys In 2022, we experimented with a new question in cross-national surveys to capture the international equivalent of U.S. partisan “leaners.”
decoded Apr 5, 2023 How we review code at Pew Research Center As part of our quality control process, we review code with a series of interim reviews during a project and a formalized code check at the end.