2013
DOI: 10.1177/2043820613513388
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Big data and human geography

Abstract: We are entering an era of big data – data sets that are characterised by high volume, velocity, variety, exhaustivity, resolution and indexicality, relationality and flexibility. Much of these data are spatially and temporally referenced and offer many possibilities for enhancing geographical understanding, including for post-positivist scholars. Big data also, however, poses a number of challenges and risks to geographic scholarship and raises a number of taxing epistemological, methodological and ethical que… Show more

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“…Big data means various data created quickly such as figure data, image data, text data [29,30]. Although there has been big data for a long time in the world, due to a lack of technology for collecting, processing and analyzing data, it is difficult to utilize the big data.…”
Section: Open Data Policy and Use Cases In Many Fieldsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Big data means various data created quickly such as figure data, image data, text data [29,30]. Although there has been big data for a long time in the world, due to a lack of technology for collecting, processing and analyzing data, it is difficult to utilize the big data.…”
Section: Open Data Policy and Use Cases In Many Fieldsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Big Data has been characterized by certain features: massive in size; created and collected rapidly in real time; diverse in its variety-being both structured and unstructured; exhaustive in its scope, as it endeavors to collect data from the most amount of people at any given time; highly detailed; relational, even as the data may be conjoined and interconnected; and, flexible in that it may be molded differently in terms of size and field [29,30].…”
Section: Big Data and Smart Citiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The results of analysis made predictions about the spread of the flu in later years [31]. And while, in recent years there has been criticism of the study and its inaccuracies, there is no doubt that the analysis of Big Data can be valuable [26,29]. Today, there are also other concerns about the infallibility of Big Data, including its vulnerabilities to hackers, and of course to being (mis)interpreted to serve the interest of big business and politics [30].…”
Section: Big Data and Smart Citiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Por otra parte, se puede considerar que la Neogeografía es solo un ejemplo de lo que ahora se denomina BIG data (PUMAIN, 2014;GRAHAM y SHELTON, 2013;KITCHIN, 2013), es decir la explosión de nuevos datos personales, y de otros muchos tipos, que la actividad diaria de personas y de cosas genera de continuo. La razón principal es que, de muchas formas distintas, las personas y las cosas, sobre todo en las ciudades, están monitorizadas continuamente, generando datos, muchos, o casi todos ellos, georreferenciados y que se almacenan en diversos repositorios, unos públicos y otros más privados.…”
Section: El Big Data Y La Neogeografíaunclassified