We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 Dataverse Community Meeting, to be held virtually on June 15–17. Registration is free and open to both current and future members of the Dataverse Community.... Read more about Register for the 7th Annual Dataverse Community Meeting

by Seth Soderborg

Those of us who have spent the COVID-19 pandemic living in the US have learned a lot more than we expected to about just how much one’s partisan politics can affect decisions as mundane as whether to take precautions to protect one’s health in the midst of a global pandemic. The reasons for this are fairly straightforward: the US government spent the first year of the pandemic doing its best to take no action, and partisan media echoed that line—specifically targeting mask-wearing and being in crowds as activities that were not so risky. It...

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by IQSS staff and Amanda Pearson

Since 2006, Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government at Harvard University, has been compiling data about who votes in America, and why. He’s the principal investigator for the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), which is a nationally representative annual sample survey of more than 50,000 American adults stratified by state and administered by the data and analytics group YouGov... Read more about Crunching the Data on American Elections: The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES)