Consumer Data Research
Cheshire, James
Consumer Data Research - UCL Press 2018 - 1 electronic resource (196 p.)
Open Access
Big Data collected by customer-facing organisations – such as smartphone logs, store loyalty card transactions, smart travel tickets, social media posts, or smart energy meter readings – account for most of the data collected about citizens today. As a result, they are transforming the practice of social science. Consumer Big Data are distinct from conventional social science data not only in their volume, variety and velocity, but also in terms of their provenance and fitness for ever more research purposes. The contributors to this book, all from the Consumer Data Research Centre, provide a first consolidated statement of the enormous potential of consumer data research in the academic, commercial and government sectors – and a timely appraisal of the ways in which consumer data challenge scientific orthodoxies.
Creative Commons
English
111.9781787353886
10.14324/111.9781787353886 doi
Data analysis: general
Humanities
Consumerism
Sociology
Economics
Human geography
big data consumer data research consumer consumer behaviour Demography Ethnic group Smart meter Twitter
Consumer Data Research - UCL Press 2018 - 1 electronic resource (196 p.)
Open Access
Big Data collected by customer-facing organisations – such as smartphone logs, store loyalty card transactions, smart travel tickets, social media posts, or smart energy meter readings – account for most of the data collected about citizens today. As a result, they are transforming the practice of social science. Consumer Big Data are distinct from conventional social science data not only in their volume, variety and velocity, but also in terms of their provenance and fitness for ever more research purposes. The contributors to this book, all from the Consumer Data Research Centre, provide a first consolidated statement of the enormous potential of consumer data research in the academic, commercial and government sectors – and a timely appraisal of the ways in which consumer data challenge scientific orthodoxies.
Creative Commons
English
111.9781787353886
10.14324/111.9781787353886 doi
Data analysis: general
Humanities
Consumerism
Sociology
Economics
Human geography
big data consumer data research consumer consumer behaviour Demography Ethnic group Smart meter Twitter