A Practical Guide to Big Data Research in Psychology

Psychological Methods

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 458-474

  Chen, Eric Evan ^a   Wojcik, Sean P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Upworthy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Data analytics; Data mining; Machine learning; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DATA MINING; FIELD STUDY; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MODEL; PHYSICIAN; SCIENTIST; SKILL; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGY;

DATA MINING; DATASETS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85003955314     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000111     Document Type: Article

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