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 ...

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 ...

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For more than three decades, DHS provided vital demographic and health data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition in over ...

Chad M. Topaz and Tyrone Bass suggest five steps researchers can take to make more inclusive choices when collecting and analyzing data. Colleges and universities are investing heavily in data science ...

Recent efforts to improve on the openness and transparency in science have already begun paying off towards greater integrity in the way researchers do and report science. It is now common practice ...

Human beings remain mysterious. Our social relationships and the societies we form are still difficult to analyze. All the more so as this mass of people, basically one and the same, changes and ...