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Tourism by the numbers: data, politics, and overtourism in Venice
Mondes du TourismeIn recent debates on overtourism, tourism statistics have played a significant role. This analysis examines how tourism mobility is measured and how numerical data are mobilised for political purposes by various stakeholders, ranging from activists to ...
Davide Ceccato
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The Sociology of Quantification – Perspectives on an Emerging Field in the Social Sciences
, 2016 The introductory article to this HSR Special Issue presents the emerging field of sociology of quantification, which can be regarded as a transdisciplinary approach to the analysis of processes of quantification. Processes of categorization and classification are included because they can result in processes of generating figures and numbers also.
Diaz-Bone, Rainer, Didier, Emmanuel
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Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the COVID-19 pandemic
Big Data & Society, 2020 Quantification is particularly seductive in times of global uncertainty. Not surprisingly, numbers, indicators, categorizations, and comparisons are central to governmental and popular response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stefania Milan
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Legitimising EU Governance through Performance Assessment Instruments
International Review of Public Policy, 2020 The article addresses the production of indicators as policy instruments in European public policy. It discusses the relevant literature on sociology of quantification and European public policy and applies this theoretical framework to the case of ...
Bartolomeo Cappellina
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Mass personalization: Predictive marketing algorithms and the reshaping of consumer knowledge
Big Data & Society, 2020 This paper focuses on the conception and use of machine-learning algorithms for marketing. In the last years, specialized service providers as well as in-house data scientists have been increasingly using machine learning to predict consumer behavior for
Baptiste Kotras
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how mandatory disclosure of added sugar content on the updated U.S. Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer demand and market outcomes. Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data (2015–2020) and a random coefficient discrete choice model, we estimate how added sugar labeling influences purchasing behavior in yogurt and cookie
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
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Scaling Up Bibliographic Data Science
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2019 Bibliographic data science is an emerging research paradigm in digital humanities. It aims at systematic quantification of the trends in knowledge production based on large-scale analysis of bibliographic metadata collections and the methods of modern ...
Mikko Tolonen +3 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Emotional responses of veterinary students to first encounters with animal body donors
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Students' first encounters with animal body donors in higher education are a formative and also potentially stressful experience. The complex emotions elicited by body donor use in learning and their effects on professional development have been documented in medical students, but are far less explored in veterinary medical counterparts.
S. Regnault, C. Basu, S. Channon
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