Pilot-tested API-based data collection
Pilot-tested API-based data collection is a structured digital data-gathering approach in which a researcher designs an API query or harvesting script and then runs a small-scale trial before executing the full collection. The pilot phase exposes authentication issues, rate-limit constraints, schema inconsistencies, and coverage gaps, enabling targeted refinements that protect the integrity and completeness of the final dataset. It bridges the software-engineering practice of integration testing with the social-science tradition of instrument pre-testing.
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- Salganik, M. J. (2018). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. · ISBN 978-0691158648
- Presser, S., Couper, M. P., Lessler, J. T., Martin, E., Martin, J., Rothgeb, J. M., & Singer, E. (2004). Methods for testing and evaluating survey questions. Public Opinion Quarterly, 68(1), 109–130. · DOI 10.1093/poq/nfh008
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