Applied research at Pew Data Labs and academic publications
Selected public reports from Pew Research Center’s Data Labs that I’ve authored or supervised. For the full list, see my Pew staff page.
2025: How Parents Use Online Communities — Analyzed engagement and discussion patterns across Reddit’s largest parenting communities using platform data at scale.
2025: Google Users Are Less Likely to Click on Links When an AI Summary Appears — Measured how AI-generated search summaries change real-world click behavior using passively collected browsing data.
2025: What Web Browsing Data Tells Us About How AI Appears Online — Used behavioral web browsing data to quantify how AI enters Americans’ everyday online experience.
2024: Who U.S. Adults Follow on TikTok — Analyzed following patterns across entertainment, news, and cultural content categories on TikTok.
2024: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in the U.S. — Combined geospatial infrastructure data with national survey data to study how proximity to EV chargers shapes public attitudes.
2023: House Freedom Caucus on Twitter: Going Negative and Getting Attention (with Samuel Bestvater) — Measured how negative rhetoric drives disproportionate engagement on Twitter using large-scale platform data.
My academic work focuses on racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, and computational methods. For a complete list, see my Google Scholar page.
2024: Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers (with Aniket Kesari, Jae Yeon Kim, Taylor Brown, Tiago Ventura, and Tina Law) — PS: Political Science & Politics
2021: Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets (with Stefan D. McCabe, William Hobbs, Adam Hughes, Emma Remy, and David Lazer) — Public Opinion Quarterly
2021: Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey (with Janelle Wong) — RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
2021: Unpacking Identity: Opportunities and Constraints for Cross-Racial Collaboration (with Maneesh Arora and Sara Sadhwani) — RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
2019: Asian American Attitudes Toward Undocumented Immigrants and Immigration Policies (with Janelle Wong) — CUNY FORUM
2018: Who sees an hourglass? Assessing citizens’ perceptions of local economic inequality (with Ben Newman and Erinn Lauterbach) — Research & Politics
2020: The Trump Effect: Experimental Investigation into the Emboldening Effect (with Ben Newman, Jennifer Merolla, Danielle Lemi, Loren Collingwood, and Karthick Ramakrishnan) — British Journal of Political Science
2020: Messaging Matters: How Information about Underrepresentation Affects Political Participation (with Cheryl Boudreau and Jennifer Merolla) — California Journal of Politics and Policy
2018: Race, Place, and Building a Base: Latino Population Growth and the Nascent Trump Campaign for President (with Ben Newman and Loren Collingwood) — Public Opinion Quarterly
2016: Gaps in Civic Engagement among Latinos and Asian Americans (with Karthick Ramakrishnan) — in Klofstad, Casey (Ed.), New Advances in the Study of Civic Volunteerism, Temple University Press