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Big data as an ecological hypothesis generator

2023-01-03

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Few textbooks on research methods offer more than a few words of advice on how to devise scientific hypotheses. Big data is conceived as a hypothesis-generator procedure, a disruptive analytical innovation that is reconfiguring ecological research. My theses are (a) the hypotheses that big-data can originate “stricto sensu” are empirical generalizations that do not provide ecological understanding, (b) empirical g...

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10.22541/au.167275881.17344660/v1
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