Geography and the future of big data, big data and the future of geography

Dialogues in Human Geography

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-261

  Graham, Mark ^a   Shelton, Taylor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

big data; geographic thought; positivism

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84975096562     PISSN: 20438206     EISSN: 20438214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2043820613513121     Document Type: Article

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