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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent advances in data mining and mathematical modelling have increasingly influenced the development of sophisticated algorithms across diverse application domains. By extracting hidden structures ...

Devavrat Shah's group at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) specializes in analyzing how social networks process information. In 2012, the group demonstrated algorithms that ...

There is a lot of interest in using AI within enterprise communications, and there are certainly a lot of new use cases emerging. My favorite use case works with voice and digital channels, agents, ...

Digital twins—predictive computer simulations of drug production processes—are only as good as the software from which they are constructed. The key to building them, say researchers, is knowing which ...