TY - GEN AU - Cheshire,James AU - Longley,Paul AU - Singleton,Alex TI - Consumer Data Research SN - 111.9781787353886 PY - 2018/// PB - UCL Press KW - Data analysis: general KW - bicssc KW - Humanities KW - Consumerism KW - Sociology KW - Economics KW - Human geography KW - big data KW - consumer data research KW - consumer KW - consumer behaviour KW - Demography KW - Ethnic group KW - Smart meter KW - Twitter N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29973/1/651053.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29973/1/651053.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29973/1/651053.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36136 ER -