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Civiqs director Drew Linzer joins The Great Battlefield to talk survey methodology and data science NewsColony How concerned are you about a coronavirus outbreak in your local area? Dr. Drew Linzer, director of Civiqs, recently joined Nathaniel Pearlman of The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about the work being done by Civiqs, recruiting a diverse survey panel, and what he’s learned about public opinion from his work. Civiqs conducts daily polling on a variety of issues and uses a unique approach to gather a diverse cohort of participants so that the surveys are both accurate and representative. According to Linzer, “We try to find people where they are, and ask them to participate. We try to cover as broad a spectrum of the internet as we can. What we want to do is make it so that the people that we’re talking to are generally representative; not just clustered in certain types of areas or demographic groups, but also behavioral groups.” Surveying the panel every day w...