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RE: Cultural, economic, and social forms of capital on Steemit [ORIGINAL RESEARCH]
This is interesting exploratory research. One thing nice about the blockchain is that this data is out in the open for researchers everywhere. As time goes on, I guess some of the research on steemit data will even generalize to other social media platforms. I hadn't really considered the amazing potential for the STEEM blockchain as a data source for social scientists until now, so thank you for your insights.
I appreciate that. If you know anything about how to systematically access that data (scraping? IDK), I'd be so appreciative to hear it. I want to do this kind of research on big samples but am comparatively computer illiterate, so I literally was manually entering this data into a spreadsheet. Need a better way!
By the way, your posts are good. Followed!
All kinds of data can be collected via the API. If you know Python, @xeroc has some libraries for API access. I should write a post sometime about how to pull data out of the Steem blockchain for this sort of research.
@theoretical please do write the post. look forward to that!
I definitely do not know Python. Please do write that post, I need an entry point to begin learning to approach this.
Not yet, but I'm starting to learn... slowly. I've been playing around with the command line wallet today, and it's clear that the potential to collect data at scale is definitely there. I'll try to remember to let you know if I stumble across anything that looks promising for that purpose.
I appreciate it. Re-reading this post, there is a lot missing from the discussion. Hopefully the text and data can improve as I carry this line of research forward.