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> Social scientists don't really analyze images much, but that might be the next big thing.

Satellite images have been used in research in economics to estimate poverty and deforestation.

That all depends - there are some geography departments that do a lot of data driven analaysis, as do some economists. There really is a lot of overlap - with various disciplines doing data driven work. Would also expect that criminologists might be doing similar things.

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