Data, Data Everywhere: Open Data versus Big Data in the Quest for Transparency

Transparency in Politics and the Media: Accountability and Open Government

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 167-178

  Margetts, Helen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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