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Contributing to a Data Pool

Start contributing your data to earn CGDX tokens!

By becoming a contributor, you facilitate the sale and purchase of datasets on CognideX and by extension, you are a part of this ecosystem. In the end, it's not just about your ownership you empower other users to contribute and leverage datasets for their own purposes be it analytics or discovering new trends.

Currently, CognideX supports the following datasets:

  1. LinkedIn
  2. TikTok
  3. YouTube

And we'll show you how you can contribute to the datasets in the respective Data Pools. (Refer to Data Pools to learn more about Data Pools.)

LinkedIn​

(Refer to this page for more details.)

The easiest and fastest way to obtain a copy of your LinkedIn data is to initiate a data download from your Settings & Privacy page:

  1. Click the LinkedIn Me Icon Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.

  2. Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown.

  3. Click the Data Privacy on the left rail.

  4. Under the How LinkedIn uses your data section, click Get a copy of your data.

  5. Select the data that you're looking for and Request archive.

You can select specific categories of data or a larger download. If you select a specific type of data, LinkedIn will email you within minutes. If you select the larger download, you'll receive an email within 24 hours. Use the link provided in the email to download the information you requested. The data will be available for download for 72 hours.

  • You should only download your data from a personal computer and not a public computer.
  • This feature is currently not available on mobile.
  • You'll only receive the categories of data that are applicable to your account and activities on LinkedIn. For example, if you don't have certifications listed on your profile, you won't receive a Certifications file.
  • LinkedIn will only provide your own personal data and not that of other members. LinkedIn does not provide People You May Know or Who's Viewed Your Profile data.
  • If you close your account, you'll no longer have access to your LinkedIn account data. For more information, you can check out what happens after you close your account.
  • You may notice in your connection data that some of your connections' email addresses are missing. That's because members choose in their privacy settings whether to allow others to download their email address.

You can download your data within:

  1. 10 minutes or
  2. 48 hours (we recommend downloading this dataset if you want higher rewards).

Feel free to check out this article for more information: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1339364/downloading-your-account-data

TikTok​

(Refer to this page for more details.)

You can request a copy of your TikTok data, which may include but is not limited to your username, watch video history, comment history, and privacy settings.

To request your TikTok data:

  1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom.
  2. Tap the Menu ☰ button at the top, then tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Tap Account.
  4. Tap Download your data.
  5. Choose which information you want to include in your file to download and select a file format.
  6. Tap Request data.

After you submit your request, we'll create a file of your data that you can download from the download data tab. We'll notify you in the app when it's ready to download. Please note that it may take a few days to prepare the file.

To download your TikTok data:

  1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom.
  2. Tap the Menu ☰ button at the top, then tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Tap Account.
  4. Tap Download your data.
  5. Tap Download data to see the status of your request, and tap Download if it's ready. Your file will be available for up to 4 days.

Note: Some data may not be available to download, such as data that affects the privacy of others. Due to processing times, the last 24 to 48 hours of some data categories may not be included in your file. You can make another request after this time period for more recent data.

YouTube​

(Refer to this page for more details.)

Step 1: Select data to include in your download archive

  1. Log into your Google Account.
  2. Go to the Google Takeout page. Google products which you utilize and hold your data are automatically selected.
  • If you don’t want to download data from a product, uncheck the box beside it.
  • If you only want to download some of your data from a product, you may have the option to select a button like All data included List. Then, you can uncheck the box next to data you don’t want to include.
  1. Select Next step.

Step 2: Customize your archive format Delivery method (as listed by Google)

  • Email
  • Drive
  • Dropbox
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • Box

Export type:

  • One-time archive
  • Scheduled exports

File type:

  • Zip files
  • Tgz files

Archive size Choose the maximum size archive you want to create. If the data you’re downloading is larger than this size, multiple archives will be created.

Step 3: Get your Google data archive When your archive is created by using one of these options, we'll email you a link to its location. Depending on the amount of information in your account, this process could take from a few minutes to a few days. Most people get the link to their archive the same day that they request it.