The data avalanche is here. Shouldn't we be digging?

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 181-201

  Miller, Harvey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 76349098693     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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