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A comment on Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015).

Re:Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015) by polpenn on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @08:56AM (#17908693)
> Social scientists don't really analyze images much, but that might be the next big thing.

Satellite images have been used in research in economics to estimate poverty and deforestation.

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Re:Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015) by james1071 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:23AM (#17908834)
That all depends - there are some geography departments that do a lot of data driven analaysis, as do some economists. There really is a lot of overlap - with various disciplines doing data driven work. Would also expect that criminologists might be doing similar things.
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