The rise of machine learning methods in the fields of natural language processing and information retrieval. The availability of data for research is due to the boom of the World Wide Web, and in ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social and behavioral data provided political actors and public health professionals with an empirical basis for guiding their actions in fighting the pandemic 1. In the ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

AI – or artificial intelligence – is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for ...

Free government data lowers the cost of academic research, but it can also divert talented people from more productive work ...