Abstract

<p>The explosion of data available from online systems such as social media is creating a wealth of trace data, that is, data that record evidence of human activity. The volume of data available offers great potential to advance social and behavioural science research. However, the data are of a very different kind than more conventional social and behavioural science data, posing challenges to use. This paper adopts a data framework from Earth Observation science and applies it to trace data to identify possible issues in analyzing trace data. Application of the framework also reveals issues for sharing and reusing data.</p>

Year of Publication
2017
Book Title
Big Data Factories: CollaborativeĀ Approaches
Publisher
Springer Nature
ISBN Number
978-3-319-59186-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-59186-5_4
Refereed Designation
Non-Refereed