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 ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT. When something unfamiliar emerges or when something familiar does something unexpected people need to make sense of what is emerging or going on in order to act. Social representations ...