The possibilities of digital discrimination: Research on e-commerce, algorithms and big data
2014 review of recent studies and reports on online discrimination and potential downsides of digital marketplaces featuring user profiles and data.
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“Missing workers” and the labor force: Research on unemployment and getting back to work
2015 roundup of research relating to Americans who have dropped out of the labor force, including the changing nature of new jobs and the human impacts of unemployment.
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Research tip sheets: Lessons on online search techniques, reading studies, understanding data and methods
Curriculum overview with links to a variety of materials that help foster basic research competencies.
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The research on capital punishment: Recent scholarship and unresolved questions
2014 review of research on capital punishment, including studies that attempt to quantify rates of innocence and the potential deterrence effect on crime.
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Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges
2012 study by Boston University for the National Bureau of Economic Research on diminishing returns for students who attend for-profit education programs.
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Dataset digest: From Data.gov to Chartbuilder, a lesson with organic farm data
With a growing number of public datasets and data-visualization tools available, we provide a simple exercise in how to create a time-series graph using Quartz’s Chartbuilder application.
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What’s new in digital and social media research? Some greatest hits from 2014
Year-end 2014 column featuring a dozen powerful studies on diverse topics across news, social and digital media areas.
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Dataset digest: Open data, tools and resources that can help fuel your stories
Running list of useful datasets that can help drive stories as well as best practices, interviews with leading journalists and primers for journalists and students to sharpen their skills.
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Making federal data more useful and accessible to fuel media and democracy
2014 report from Journalist’s Resource suggeting improvements to the Federal Statistical Agency websites and offering recommendations on how the agencies could better help news media.
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Protests, waves of collective action and policing in the United States: Key research ideas
In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, we review research on the nature of social movements, “waves” of protests and activism cycles, as well as police response.
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