The digitization of economic geography's infrastructure: Implications of the information overload.
During the last two decades, digitization has deeply transformed the 'infrastructure' of economic geography: the quantity and variety of available data, the techniques for retrieving and the tools for processing such data, and the practices of academic research. This commentary argues that the digit...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 191; no. 4; pp. 1 - 9 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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