UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Emerging practices and perspectives on Big Data analysis in economics : Bigger and better or more of the same ?
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Emerging practices and perspectives on Big Data analysis in economics : Bigger and better or more of the same ?
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UvA-DARE（数字学术知识库）经济学中大数据分析的新兴实践和观点：更大、更好还是更多相同？
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2014
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Eric T. Meyer
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Linnet Taylor;Ralph Schroeder;Eric T. Meyer
虽然大数据的术语迄今为止在经济学中几乎没有得到什么吸引力，但前所未有的丰富数据集的可用性以及对新方法的需求-无论是认识论还是计算-都是该学科的一个新兴问题。本文通过对跨学科经济学家的采访，探讨了跨学科大数据的观点，研究人员在经济问题上使用的新型数据，以及经济学家对这一机会的反应范围。首先，我们概述了它正在使用的领域，包括经济趋势的预测和“即时预报”;在营销背景下绘制和预测影响力;以及作为现有类型数据（如人口普查或劳动力市场数据）的更便宜或更准确的替代品。然后，我们分析了大数据对经济学的更广泛的当前和潜在贡献，例如计量经济学方法用于阐明经济学以外问题的方式，大数据如何改善或改变经济模型，以及经济学家和其他经济学家之间围绕大数据产生的合作类型。
Although the terminology of Big Data has so far gained little traction in economics, the availability of unprecedentedly rich datasets and the need for new approaches – both epistemological and computational – to deal with them is an emerging issue for the discipline. Using interviews conducted with a cross-section of economists, this paper examines perspectives on Big Data across the discipline, the new types of data being used by researchers on economic issues, and the range of responses to this opportunity amongst economists. First, we outline the areas in which it is being used, including the prediction and ‘nowcasting’ of economic trends; mapping and predicting influence in the context of marketing; and acting as a cheaper or more accurate substitute for existing types of data such as censuses or labour market data. We then analyse the broader current and potential contributions of Big Data to economics, such as the ways in which econometric methodology is being used to shed light on questions beyond economics, how Big Data is improving or changing economic models, and the kinds of collaborations arising around Big Data between economists and other