[polpenn]

> 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.

[james1071]

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.