A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Identifying causal relationships from observational data is not easy. Still, ...

This paper describes and discusses graphical techniques, based on the primitive empirical cumulative distribution function and on quantile (Q - Q) plots, percent (P - P) plots and hybrids of these, ...

Do you find yourself doing the same repetitive SEO tasks each day or facing challenges where there are not tools that can help you? If so, it might be time for you to learn Python. An initial ...

There are many emotional and powerful stories hidden in gobs of data just waiting to be found. When these stories get told, they have the power to change careers, businesses, and whole groups of ...

In this guide, we will focus on retrieving Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) historical earnings data and conducting further analysis using Benzinga’s Earnings API. Access to accurate and timely earnings data is ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

The January 2021 update to the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is out with a short list of new features headed by a data viewer used while debugging. Python for VS Code comes with the Python ...