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The applied data-centric social sciences are cyber-enabled and require the use of inductive strategies to define problems and challenges. Thus, we require the use of computers to process a large number of data points. In this chapter, we will see how computers can be used to acquire, handle and analyse data.

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    http://r-project.org.

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    The time series data is downloaded from http://stocks.finance.yahoo.co.jp/stocks/history/?code=998405.T.

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    FlightAware: http://flightaware.com.

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    The included airports are listed as Narita International Airport (RJAA), Hyakuri Airport (RJAH), Kansai International Airport (RJBB), Nanki Shirahama Airport (RJBD), Kobe Airport (RJBE), Tokachi-Obihiro Airport (RJCB), New Chitose Airport (RJCC), Hakodate Airport (RJCH), Kushiro Airport (RJCK), Memanbetsu Airport (RJCM), Nakashibetsu Airport (RJCN), Wakkanai Airport (RJCW), Iki Airport (RJDB), Yamaguchi Ube Airport (RJDC), Tsushima Airport (RJDT), Asahikawa Airport (RJEC), Fukue Airport (RJFE), Fukuoka Airport (RJFF), Kagoshima Airport (RJFK), Miyazaki Airport (RJFM), Oita Airport (RJFO), Kitakyūshū Airport (RJFR), Saga Airport (RJFS), Kumamoto Airport (RJFT), Nagasaki Airport (RJFU), Chubu Centrair International Airport (RJGG), Nagoya Airport (RJNA), Komatsu Airport (RJNK), Shizuoka Airport (RJNS), Toyama Airport (RJNT), Noto Airport (RJNW), Hiroshima Airport (RJOA), Okayama Airport (RJOB), Izumo Airport (RJOC), Miho Yonago Airport (RJOH), Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport (RJOI), Kchi Ryma Airport (RJOK), Matsuyama Airport (RJOM), Osaka International Airport (RJOO), Tottori Airport (RJOR), Tokushima Airport (RJOS), Takamatsu Airport (RJOT), Aomori Airport (RJSA), Yamagata Airport (RJSC), Fukushima Airport (RJSF), Hanamaki Airport (RJSI), Akita Airport (RJSK), Misawa Air Base (RJSM), Niigata Airport (RJSN), Odate Noshiro Airport (RJSR), Sendai Airport (RJSS), Shonai Airport (RJSY), Hachijojima Airport (RJTH), Tokyo International Airport (RJTT), Naha Airport (ROAH), Ishigaki Airport (ROIG), Kumejima Airport (ROKJ), and Miyako Airport (ROMY).

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    In 1973, the Administrative Management Agency (the current Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) announced Standard Grid Square and Grid Square Code Used for the Statistics (Announcement No. 143 by the Administrative Management Agency on July, 12, 1973) as the integrated compilation method of the Grid Square. Also, this compilation method of the Grid Square was authorised as JIS in January, 1976 (Code JIS X 0410).

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Sato, AH. (2014). Data in Computers. In: Applied Data-Centric Social Sciences. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54974-1_4

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