Trending now: Using big data to examine public opinion of space policy

Space Policy

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-16

  Whitman Cobb, Wendy N ^a  

^a CAMERON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Google Trends; Public opinion; Twitter; US space policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930477260     PISSN: 02659646     EISSN: 1879338X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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