Consumer Data Research

ISBN 10: 1787353893 / ISBN 13: 9781787353893

Published by UCL Press, 2018

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pp. 196.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Consumer Data Research
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787353893
• ISBN 13: 9781787353893
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Big Data collected by customer-facing organisations - such as smartphone logs, store loyalty card transactions, smart travel tickets, social media posts, or smart meter readings - account for most of the data collected about citizens today. This book provides the first consolidated statement of the enormous potential of consumer data research.

About the Authors

Paul Longley is Professor of Geographic Information Science at UCL where he also directs the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre. His research interests are focused around socioeconomic applications of GIScience, in geo-temporal demographics, retailing, genealogy and urban modelling, latterly often using Big Data analytics.

Alex Singleton is Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool and Deputy Director of the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre. His research explores how the complexities of individual behaviours manifest spatially and the ways in which they can be represented and understood though a framework of geographic data science.

James Cheshire is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography at UCL and Deputy Director of the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre. His research focuses on the analysis and visualisation of new forms of geographically referenced population data for social science