Measuring economic activity in China with mobile big data
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Measuring Economic Activities of China with Mobile Big Data
Emerging trends in smartphones, online maps, social media, and the resulting geo-located data, provide opportunities to collect traces of people’s socio-economical activities in a much more granular and direct fashion, triggering a revolution in empirical research. These vast mobile data offer new perspectives and approaches for measurements of economic dynamics and are broadening the research ...
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عنوان ژورنال: EPJ Data Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2193-1127
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0125-5