Live/Historic Data For Research - live data would be data produced within the past week and historic data can go way back hundreds of years. A lot of data is available for scientists to analyse. This can help science move forward as we find out the most efficient way to do things and we can make discoveries. An example would be pharmaceutical companies can use big data to alter their medicine. They could find out if a medicine worked from looking at facebook posts from users who talk about it.
Finding and collating research papers (and their findings) - some studies are quite small and some are not public. If you want to find out as much information as you can from studies, the best way to find out is word of mouth. Looking at all the small studies spoken about through social media can give you a bigger idea of the wider population.
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