Decoded Blog Posts Archive | Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/ Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World Tue, 13 May 2025 17:53:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/images/symbol-alt.svg Decoded Blog Posts Archive | Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/ 32 32 222456345 How online discussion boards informed our study of what ‘news’ means to Americans https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025/05/13/how-online-discussion-boards-informed-our-study-of-what-news-means-to-americans/ Tue, 13 May 2025 17:51:11 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded/2025/05/09&p=238530 We share the “why” and “how” behind our use of an online discussion board as a qualitative research method.

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]]> 238530 How a glitch in an online survey replaced the word ‘yes’ with ‘forks’ https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025/03/21/how-a-glitch-in-an-online-survey-replaced-the-word-yes-with-forks/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:53:14 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded&p=202272 Dating back to at least early 2023, a bizarre and alarming technical glitch started popping up in some organizations’ online surveys and forms.

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]]> 202272 Validating 2022 voters in Pew Research Center’s survey data https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/10/31/validating-2022-voters-in-pew-research-centers-survey-data/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:55:47 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded&p=191219 Knowing who voted is critical to developing an accurate understanding of an election’s outcome.

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]]> 191219 Pew Research Center’s tips for journalists covering polls – during election season and beyond https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/09/11/pew-research-centers-tips-for-journalists-covering-polls-during-election-season-and-beyond/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:58:50 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded&p=186923 We’ve compiled some tips for journalists who use polling in their work during election season and beyond.

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]]> 186923 How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using large language models in our work https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/08/27/how-pew-research-center-is-and-is-not-using-large-language-models-in-our-work/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:59:37 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded&p=185495 In this post, we’ll share our current guidelines for the internal use of large language models and potential areas of experimentation.

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]]> 185495 What a survey experiment tells us about measuring religious tolerance in Australia https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/07/29/what-a-survey-experiment-tells-us-about-measuring-religious-tolerance-in-australia/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:53:57 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded&p=183279 We ran a survey experiment on religious tolerance in Australia to examine whether respondents’ answers capture a general distaste for religion rather than intolerance for particular religious groups.

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]]> 183279 Measuring partisanship in Europe: How online survey questions compare with phone polls https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/05/13/measuring-partisanship-in-europe-how-online-survey-questions-compare-with-phone-polls/ Mon, 13 May 2024 19:48:21 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/?post_type=decoded&p=166436 We compared three different online survey methods in certain countries to see which one would most closely replicate our phone results.

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]]> 166436 Reproducibility as part of code quality control https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/03/28/reproducibility-as-part-of-code-quality-control/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:53:34 +0000 In this post, we discuss reproducibility as a part of Pew Research Center's code review process.

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]]> 111113 Redacting identifying information with computational methods in large text data https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2024/01/12/redacting-identifying-information-with-computational-methods-in-large-text-data/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:58:45 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded///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.

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]]> 111128 How we adopted Kubernetes for our data science infrastructure https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2023/11/30/how-we-adopted-kubernetes-for-our-data-science-infrastructure/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:59:17 +0000 https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded///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.

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