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Over 100 peer-reviewed papers have been published using Pushshift data.

Over 100 peer-reviewed papers have been published using Pushshift data.

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Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding. However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media data involves a high degree of engineering skill set and computational resources. In fact, research is often times gated by data engineering problems that must be overcome befor...

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... Pushshift Reddit dataset has attracted a substantial research community.As of late 2019, Google Scholar indexes over 100 peer-reviewed publications that used Pushshift data (see Fig. 5). This research covers a diverse cross-section of research topics including measuring toxicity, personality, virality, and governance. Pushshift's influence as a primary source of Reddit data among researchers has attracted empirical scrutiny [53], which in turn has led to improved data validation efforts [11]. We note that there is ...
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... Pushshift Reddit dataset has attracted a substantial research community.As of late 2019, Google Scholar indexes over 100 peer-reviewed publications that used Pushshift data (see Fig. 5). This research covers a diverse cross-section of research topics including measuring toxicity, personality, virality, and governance. Pushshift's influence as a primary source of Reddit data among researchers has attracted empirical scrutiny [53], which in turn has led to improved data validation efforts [11]. We note that there is ...

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