A dozen ways to get lost in translation: Inherent challenges in large-scale data sets

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1727-1744

  Busch, Lawrence ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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