Is there any type of scientific data any researchers would like to have access to using an API? Weather data, earthquake data, etc.?
If there is any interest in this, Pushshift will start collecting raw science data for researchers to query and use -- just let me know!
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API access is great for savvy researchers with data engineering support. Have you considered just offering access to the database directly?
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Weather data (temp, wind, rainfall) is great for correlating against social activity. Seen some good results from others doing time+geo alignment of stuff like heat waves with increased car accident and crime reports on Twitter
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For social science research, any social+physical+digital mobility data, peer to peer interaction panels other than Reddit, online marketplace listings with records of changes and transactions would be great starting points!
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I don't know if there are APIs already for these, but I'd say NDVI data from satellite imaging (e.g. greenness) and energy consumption with temporal resolution in many cities. Also individual-level stock trades in markets where it is public, I think NYSE shared some days of data.
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To me the coolest thing would be datasets on other large but somewhat ignored social media platforms (Youtube, TikTok). For raw science data imo it is hard to offer something new (not reinventing the wheel) without understanding the specific needs and workflows of each community
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This one, with the interpol. integrated in the API:
psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/d
I give it datetime, longitude, latitude and a variable name, it return this variable, by interpolating the grid.
(I'm building that in python for work, with xarray, but an api is better for the world).
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