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Answering the question posed by the title of this contribution might seem easy and straightforward: yes.
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Amaturo, E., Aragona, B. (2017). Introduction. In: Lauro, N., Amaturo, E., Grassia, M., Aragona, B., Marino, M. (eds) Data Science and Social Research. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55477-8_1
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