Compara mètodes

	Recollida de dades mitjançant sensors	Recollida de dades basada en API
Camp	Metodologia d'enquestes	Metodologia d'enquestes
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	1990s–2000s (widespread deployment with IoT ~2000s)	2000s–2010s (formalized as a research method)
Autor original	Multidisciplinary; sensor networks formalized in engineering and computer science from the 1990s onward	Emerged from computational social science and web 2.0 platform practices
Tipus	Quantitative / mixed data collection technique	Digital data collection technique
Font seminal	Chong, C.-Y., & Kumar, S. P. (2003). Sensor networks: Evolution, opportunities, and challenges. Proceedings of the IEEE, 91(8), 1247–1256.	Salganik, M. J. (2018). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691158648
Àlies	sensor measurement, instrumented data collection, physical sensor logging, IoT data collection	API data harvesting, API-driven data collection, programmatic data retrieval, API research data collection
Relacionats	5	5
Resum	Sensor data collection uses physical or digital instruments to automatically capture quantitative measurements from the environment, human bodies, or machines over time. Common sensors measure temperature, motion, heart rate, location, light, sound, or chemical properties. Because the recording is automated and continuous, the method can produce high-frequency datasets with minimal researcher burden, making it central to IoT, environmental monitoring, wearable research, and behavioral studies.	API-based data collection is a systematic technique in which a researcher sends structured requests to an application programming interface to retrieve data automatically from digital platforms, databases, or services. It is the primary method used in computational social science to gather large-scale social media records, government open data, financial data streams, and scientific repository content in machine-readable formats such as JSON or XML, enabling reproducible and scalable data acquisition that manual collection cannot match.