Rethinking empirical social sciences

Dialogues in Human Geography

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 268-273

  Ruppert, Evelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data; digital devices; interdisciplinarity; social life of methods; transactional data

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84975096785     PISSN: 20438206     EISSN: 20438214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2043820613514321     Document Type: Article

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