You can buy just about anything on Amazon.com — clothes, books, electronics. You can buy answers, too. College students and professors are doing all sorts of research on an Amazon site called Mechanical Turk. … When you type in the Web address MechanicalTurk.com, you’ll see a page full of gray […] Read more »
The Web at 25 in the U.S.
… Since 1995, the Pew Research Center has documented this explosive adoption of the internet and its wide-ranging impacts on everything from: the way people get, share, and create news; the way they take care of their health; the way they perform their jobs; the way they learn; the nature […] Read more »
The democratization of data journalism
The proliferation of interesting and easy-to-access internet-based data combined with fast computers and free or cheap analysis and visualization tools are democratizing and popularizing the field of data journalism. But what are the rules, parameters, and guidelines for this work which, like its name, bridges the worlds of data and […] Read more »
In Tokyo elections, Twitter reveals voter preferences in a way surveys do not
… In many elections, voters choose their candidate along party lines. But in the case of the Tokyo governor, issues are believed to be more important than the party. We want to understand which issues are important, and how these issues vary across Tokyo. The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun has […] Read more »
Some States Face Extra Hurdles for Insurance Enrollment
As more people sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a few states stand out from the pack for their low enrollment numbers relative to their high numbers of uninsured people. … A close look shows the forces working against the ACA in these states are complicated and […] Read more »
There’s an app for that: Mobile-based app surveys hold great potential for polling
As Americans increasingly turn to mobile phones as their primary platform of communication, survey researchers must adapt with new methodologies to reach audiences no longer connected to landline telephones. … At Public Opinion Strategies, we’ve been experimenting with mobile surveys. App-based mobile survey research is at the forefront of new […] Read more »