Using google search patterns to explain the demand for wild edible mushrooms

Dı́az-Balteiro, Luis; Alfranca, Óscar; Voces, Roberto; Soliño, Mario

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2023.102993

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“…In search engine analyses, researchers can examine temporal changes in people's interests for a search term and time period by using the "relative search volumes" (RSV) in GT, which are relative values (from 0 to 100) for a given time period, and the "impressions" scores for Yandex, which are absolute values (Stephens-Davidowitz and Varian, 2015;Shin et al, 2022a). Examples of this kind of study include topics such as temporal changes in cherry flowering phenology (Shin et al, 2022d), utilization of berries (Kotani et al, 2021;Shin et al, 2022a), demand for mushrooms (Diaz-Balteiro et al, 2023), appearance of insects (Takada, 2012), the COVID-19 pandemic (Mavragani and Gkillas, 2020;Amusa et al, 2022), and pollens that trigger seasonal allergies (Hall et al, 2020;Iinuma et al, 2020). GT provides search by country and region, whereas Yandex provides impressions scores for a variety of administrative units (continent, country, region, city, and Russian administrative wards).…”

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Perspective and review: how to develop our understanding of temporal changes in the relationship between people and the landscape under societal and climate change in Northeast Asia?

Shin,

Saitoh,

Kotani

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The relationship between people and the landscape consists of multi-layer components such as the atmosphere, water, living things, nutrients, livelihood, society, and information. To clarify temporal changes in this relationship, previous studies have used conventional approaches based on field work and satellite observation. However, interpretations based on these conventional two approaches are subject to temporal, spatial, representative, and interpretability gaps. In this perspective and review paper, we propose three approaches to bridge these gaps: (1) text mining of historical documents and data (mining for handwritten or printed old documents, books, diaries, field notes, and statistics), (2) video mining (mining for descriptions, interviews, narrations, and background of photos/video), and (3) social sensing (observing real-world events by using digital communication tools such as social networking services, YouTube, and Google Trends). We discuss the utility, limitation, and perspective of each of these proposed approaches by presenting case examples of their application from Northeast Asia. We found that (1) the text mining approach can be useful to remove the temporal, representative, and interpretability gaps but requires immense amounts of time and labor; (2) the video mining approach can be useful to remove the temporal, representative, and interpretability gaps, but uncertainties remain and there are usage limitations with video materials; and (3) the social sensing approach can be useful to reduce the spatial, representative, and interpretability gaps, but it requires careful consideration in terms of data quality and ethical issues. To deepen our understanding of the relationship between people and the landscape during periods of social and climate change on a scale of seasons to centuries from the viewpoint of personal attributes and traits, we conclude that an integrated analysis that combines the conventional approaches such as field work and satellite observation and the proposed approaches should be further developed. Through the development of our proposed integrated analytical approaches, we expect to establish a new transdisciplinary study that integrates anthropology, sociology, informatics, history, and natural sciences.

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Section: Social Sensingmentioning

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Perspective and review: how to develop our understanding of temporal changes in the relationship between people and the landscape under societal and climate change in Northeast Asia?

Shin,

Saitoh,

Kotani

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…The ease of sharing documents and resources in real time fosters collaboration and the joint construction of knowledge, which is fundamental in today's educational process (Tay, 2023). However, it is imperative to consider how this instantaneous exchange can influence the individuality of learning (Diaz-Balteiro et al, 2023). On the other hand, facial expressions, gestures, postures and voice tones convey information that complements or even surpasses the verbal content (Rodríguez et al, 2018).…”

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“…Over the last two decades, Google has revolutionized the way we communicate and access information (Diaz-Balteiro et al, 2023;Hu et al, 2019). Its impact on society is reflected in the democratization of knowledge, providing people with unprecedented access to a wide range of resources and data.…”

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The Effectiveness of the Use of Google Tools in the Management of Research Processes in the Faculty of Education Sciences

Salas Mendizabal,

Paca Vallejo,

Yabar Miranda

et al. 2024

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Objective: The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of Google tools implemented in the PIUSE platform for managing research processes in the Faculty of Education Sciences at the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno. The average age of the participants was 46.86±7.87 years. Method: The research followed a quasi-experimental design and involved 125 teachers who served as jurors and/or advisors for the second specialty program at the Faculty. This study employed three instruments: an effectiveness questionnaire for reviewing research projects and reports (α=0.967), an effectiveness questionnaire for approving research projects and reports (α=0.894), and an effectiveness questionnaire for substantiating research projects and reports (α=0.882). The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was utilized to compare two related samples, before and after the implementation of the PIUSE platform, with a significance level of p>0.05, using IBM SPSS v.25 software. The results: The PIUSE platform, which was built using Google tools, had a significant impact on the efficiency of project and research report review and approval (Z=-9.729; p<0.001), information sharing during review (Z=-9.702; p<0.001), and editing and proofreading during project and research report review (Z=-9.766; p<0.001). Conclusions: The use of Google tools facilitated the efficient management of research processes in the Faculty of Education Sciences.

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A Google Trends analysis of people's sense of seasons in Hokkaido

Shin,

Nakagawa,

Morimoto

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Tour.

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Accurate evaluation of the spatiotemporal variability of people's interest in seasons (i.e., their “sense of seasons”) is required to deeply understand temporal changes in the relationship between people and landscape under climate and societal changes. To this end, it is useful to analyze the time series of relative search volume (RSV) for relevant search terms extracted from Google Trends (GT) for any target period and target area. We examined the presence and absence of 12-month seasonality of the time series of RSV for about 300 representative search terms for Hokkaido in Japan, which has vast natural resources and is visited year-round by many tourists from Japan and abroad. In the case of searchers in both all of Japan and Hokkaido alone, search terms categorized into the foods, leisure, natural scenic spots, and seafood fields showed a strong trend toward 12-month seasonality of the time series of RSV, whereas those categorized into the Ainu (indigenous people) and people fields had weak trends for 12-month seasonality. People's sense of seasons in all of Japan or Hokkaido alone was likely associated with tourism (search terms in the animals, festivals, foods, leisure, natural scenic spots, seafood, tourist spots, and vegetation fields), as well as with animal and plant phenology (terms in the animals and vegetation fields), provisioning ecosystem services (terms in the foods and seafood fields), climate (terms in the climate field), and cultural ecosystem services (terms in the animals, festival, foods, leisure, natural scenic spots, seafoods, and vegetation fields). However, search terms with no 12-month seasonality were included in the tourist spots fields: they included many tourist spots visited by tourists all year around. Despite the need to appropriately select a huge number of representative search terms to reduce the effect of GT limitations and the uncertainty caused by unexpected and rapid temporal changes in RSV, the GT analysis allowed us to evaluate the spatiotemporal variability of people's sense of seasons regarding various objects in the landscape, including those related to tourism, under climate and societal changes.

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Using google search patterns to explain the demand for wild edible mushrooms

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Perspective and review: how to develop our understanding of temporal changes in the relationship between people and the landscape under societal and climate change in Northeast Asia?

Perspective and review: how to develop our understanding of temporal changes in the relationship between people and the landscape under societal and climate change in Northeast Asia?

The Effectiveness of the Use of Google Tools in the Management of Research Processes in the Faculty of Education Sciences

A Google Trends analysis of people's sense of seasons in Hokkaido

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