The goal for the new Pushshift social media front-end for researchers has several main goals. First, the ability to track terms across multiple platforms simultaneously to see correlations in the data. Second, to give researchers robust tools to quickly test theories and cut down
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on the time it would normally take them to explore various ideas, theories, hypothesis, etc. Third, to provide a robust platform that enables researchers to dive into data across a decade or more timespan and to aggregate data in multiple ways.
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One of the biggest goals for me is to cut down on the amount of time researchers spend on "weeding out" bad ideas from the good ones and to fast track the exploration process to make using big data as painless as possible.
Honestly, this should be fun and not monotonous.