How we review code at Pew Research Center
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Pew Research Center illustration In the United States, Pew Research Center measures partisan identification by asking Americans a pair of questions. The first question asks: “In politics today, do you...
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Pew Research Center illustration A 2019 Pew Research Center study and follow-up study in 2020 involved the complicated task of transcribing more than 60,000 audio and video files of sermons delivered...
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Pew Research Center illustration Survey researchers often ask respondents about things they may have done in the past: Have they attended a religious service in the past year? When was the last time...
View ArticleHow adding a ‘Don’t know’ response option can affect cross-national survey...
Pew Research Center illustration Pew Research Center’s international surveys have typically not given respondents the explicit option to say that they don’t know the answer to a particular question....
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Pew Research Center illustration In recent years, Pew Research Center has been thinking more intentionally about our website’s accessibility and how we can improve it. A key component of this effort...
View ArticleHow we adopted Kubernetes for our data science infrastructure
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Pew Research Center illustration In April 2023, Pew Research Center published an analysis of mission statements from K-12 school districts across the United States. Along with our analysis of this...
View ArticleReproducibility as part of code quality control
Pew Research Center illustration Computational social scientists rely on code as the main instrument for doing our work. Code is a powerful tool, but even the most seasoned coders can make mistakes in...
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