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 my first post about topic models, I discussed what topic models are, how they ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. (Related posts: An intro to topic models for text analysis, Making sense of ...

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, ...

Google already committed to eventually doing away with third-party cookies. As a substitute, it last year introduced Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC, for interest-based targeting. FLoC, as it ...

Describe the concept of topic modeling and related terminology (e.g., unsupervised machine learning) Apply topic modeling to marketing data via a peer-graded project Apply topic modeling to a variety ...