Big Data, social physics, and spatial analysis: The early years
This paper examines one of the historical antecedents of Big Data, the social physics movement. Its origins are in the scientific revolution of the 17th century in Western Europe. But it is not named as such until the middle of the 19th century, and not formally institutionalized until another hundr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Big Data & Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714535365 |