Where You Are Is What You Get! Inconsistencies of Digital Trace Data across Download Locations
Social Science Computer Review
Published online on August 01, 2026
Abstract
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To collect digital trace data, researchers continue to rely on for-profit companies’ Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These APIs often return samples of the data based on intransparent sampling procedures and algorithms. In this paper, we extend ...
To collect digital trace data, researchers continue to rely on for-profit companies’ Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). These APIs often return samples of the data based on intransparent sampling procedures and algorithms. In this paper, we extend ...