Measuring News Consumption in a Digital Era
As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges.
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Men Appear Twice as Often as Women in News Photos on Facebook
Photos that exclusively show men make up the majority of photos that show people; representational differences persist across topics
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Sizing Up Twitter Users
Twitter users are younger, more likely to identify as Democrats, more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall.
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Overcoming the limitations of topic models with a semi-supervised approach
In this post, I’ll show how to overcome some of challenges that arise with topic modeling with what’s known as a “semi-supervised” approach.
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Crowdsourcing a video coding project can be as effective as using trained research assistants
Measuring the content and meaning of videos is an important research goal for social scientists, but the tools for analyzing them at scale lag behind new advances.
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How social scientists can use transfer learning to kick-start a deep learning project
Social scientists are increasingly adopting machine learning methods to analyze large amounts of text, images and other kinds of data.
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Gender and Jobs in Online Image Searches
Men are overrepresented in online image search results for popular jobs. Women appear lower on the page than men in many of these searches.
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How far Americans live from the closest hospital differs by community type
Rural Americans live an average of 10.5 miles from the nearest hospital, compared with 5.6 miles for people in suburban areas and 4.4 in urban areas.
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Americans who find meaning in these four areas have higher life satisfaction
Four topics are universally associated with higher levels of life satisfaction: a person’s good health, romantic partner, friends and career.
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Many Turn to YouTube for Children’s Content, News, How-To Lessons
An analysis of Youtube videos suggested by the site’s recommendation engine finds that users are directed toward progressively longer and more popular content
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Sharing the code we used to study the public’s interest in the Flint water crisis
In 2017, Pew Research Center published an analysis of Google search trends related to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The analysis…
