Design & UX
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Change Your Headlines Without Fear of Destroying the SEO
I received this SEO question shortly after starting at the Chronicle of Philanthropy: “How can I change the headline without hurting the SEO?” Editors often hesitate here because they’ve heard that touching a published headline…
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Map: State legislature control
As an experiment in mapping, I found Census shape files for the upper and lower legislative boundaries in all 50 states and combined them into one U.S. map. Then, using FiscalNote data, I was able…
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World Migrants
Our 2014 data intern tackled migration flows with U.N. data from 1990 to 2013. The visualization of this would be complex: We had the ability to show the origin of people entering a country and the destinations…
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Typology Quiz
Providing a way for the public to relate with Pew Research Center findings is often a priority. For our political typology research, we accomplish this with a quiz. From an earlier version of this quiz, we…
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Typology Comparison
A major Pew Research Center report classified each respondent into one of eight distinct political groups. The idea behind the study was to show that “the middle” was not a solid group of voters but…
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Political Polarization
The most groundbreaking research of 2014 at the Pew Research Center explored growing political polarization in the United States. In a massive phone survey they asked respondents to choose ‘which statement best represents your view’ on a…
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Global Views on Morality
Another groundbreaking moment at the Pew Research Center was marked with the Global Views on Morality report. For the first time, all the findings were presented through an interactive. Since this would be the only way to…
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Next America
The most ambitious project we tackled at the Pew Research Center was Next America. It served as an accompany piece to a book of the same name authored by our Vice President. Profiling the demographic future…
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LGBT Voices
In June 2013, the Pew Research Center released the first in depth survey of the LGBT community in the United States. As part of this, respondents were asked to describe their “coming out” experience as an open…
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Teens on Social Media
The Pew Research Center Internet Project did a survey of teens who use social media to explore how well they understood privacy. For an interactive, we wanted to challenge parents to see if they knew what…
