地理学碰上“大数据”:热反应与冷思考

Geography interact with big data: Dialogue and reflection

互联网时代的"大数据"热潮迅猛波及到经济社会的各个领域,地理学是大数据研究与应用的天然试验场。聚焦地理学与大数据的碰撞,回顾大数据在地理学研究中的应用探索,重点讨论大数据给地理学研究与发展带来的机遇与挑战。讨论认为:大数据已经对地理学研究产生了一定的影响。其中,人文地理学领域的反应最为热烈,基于大数据的研究案例纷纷呈现;地理信息科学在互联网大数据时代将会更加迅猛发展,自然地理学领域正在寻找和等待爆发点。目前,大数据还不能改变地理学的核心命题与基本范式,在坚持地理学核心思想的同时,应该对地理学领域有关大数据理论的探讨与应用尝试持有一种开放包容的态度。

In the internet era, ＂Big data＂ wave spread rapidly to the economic and social fields.Geography is the natural laboratory in which big data research and application can be seen at work. The written speech focused on collision between geography and big data. It reviewed big data research and application in geography study. We also discussed the opportunities and challenges we would face during this collision. In summary, big data has had a certain influence on the geography research, especially in the human geography domain. Geographic information science will develop rapidly in the internet era of big data. But there are few disturbances in physical geography. Big data can not change the core proposition and the basic paradigm of geography. We should hold an open inclusive attitude to big data theory study and application research in geography.