Articles from February 2026
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Research by CSSI researcher affiliates Brown and An shows more personal than professional use of AI tools
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
CSSI researcher affiliates Ken Brown and Brian An recently purchased 10 questions through CSSI's SurveyHarvest initiative. Results from the survey of 1,000 U.S. adults yielded surprising results as to how people are using artificial intelligence tools in their personal and professional lives, prompting a drive to dive deeper. Read about the findings from Iowa Capital Dispatch.
New workshops added to Social Science Methods Series
Monday, February 2, 2026
The spring 2026 calendar for CSSI's Social Science Methods Series has been announced! The semester will kick off with a workshop on research data management essentials with Brian Westra, data services librarian. Other workshop topics include network analysis, factor analysis, data visualization in Stata, longitudinal modeling, geospatial data analysis in R, python, and Large Language Models (LLM). Take a look at the full Spring 2026 workshop lineup.