How agricultural economists are using big data: a review

IF 4.4 2区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

China Agricultural Economic Review Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI:10.1108/caer-09-2021-0167

Liang Lu, Guang Tian, Patrick L. Hatzenbuehler

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Abstract

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the main ways in which large amounts of information have been integrated to provide new measures of food consumption and agricultural production, and new methods for gathering and analyzing internet-based data.Design/methodology/approachThis study reviews some of the recent developments and applications of big data, which is becoming increasingly popular in agricultural economics research. In particular, this study focuses on applications of new types of data such as text and graphics in consumers' online reviews emerging from e-commerce transactions and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data as well as other producer data that are gaining popularity in precision agriculture. This study then reviews data gathering techniques such as web scraping and data analytics tools such as textual analysis and machine learning.FindingsThis study provides a comprehensive review of applications of big data in agricultural economics and discusses some potential future uses of big data.Originality/valueThis study documents some new types of data that are being utilized in agricultural economics, sources and methods to gather and store such data, existing applications of these new types of data and techniques to analyze these new data.

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农业经济学家如何使用大数据：综述

目的本文的目的是描述整合大量信息以提供食品消费和农业生产新指标的主要方式，以及收集和分析基于互联网的数据的新方法。设计/方法论/方法本研究回顾了大数据的一些最新发展和应用，大数据在农业经济学研究中越来越受欢迎。特别是，本研究重点关注电子商务交易中消费者在线评论中的文本和图形等新型数据的应用，以及归一化差异植被指数（NDVI）数据以及其他在精准农业中越来越受欢迎的生产者数据。然后，这项研究回顾了数据收集技术，如网络抓取和数据分析工具，如文本分析和机器学习。本研究全面回顾了大数据在农业经济中的应用，并讨论了大数据未来的一些潜在用途。原创性/价值本研究记录了农业经济学中使用的一些新型数据、收集和存储此类数据的来源和方法、这些新型数据的现有应用以及分析这些新数据的技术。

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China Agricultural Economic Review AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-

CiteScore

9.80

自引率

5.90%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Published in association with China Agricultural University and the Chinese Association for Agricultural Economics, China Agricultural Economic Review publishes academic writings by international scholars, and particularly encourages empirical work that can be replicated and extended by others; and research articles that employ econometric and statistical hypothesis testing, optimization and simulation models. The journal aims to publish research which can be applied to China’s agricultural and rural policy-making process, the development of the agricultural economics discipline and to developing countries hoping to learn from China’s agricultural and rural development.