Knowledge Lab

Political Echo Chambers in the Consumption of Science

Reader preferences for liberal or conservative political books also attract them to different types of science books.
Skill discrepancies between research, education and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy

Here we analyze and visualize the dynamic skill (mis-)alignment between academia, industry and educational offerings.
Team expansion and paradigm stabilization: large teams develop science and technology, small teams disrupt it

We analyzed teamwork from more than 65 million papers, patents and software products over 100 years.
Improving the allocation of biomedical research resources with big data

Here, we present a health research opportunity index (health ROI) to measure the misalignment of biomedical needs and resources.

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Mapping the Social and Technological Context of Cultural Production

Cesar A. Hidalgo
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Social MIND project will build AI models to explain, predict and influence the social world

UChicago-led collaboration seeks to remove the "black box" from AI and machine learning
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Lives of Concepts

This project aims to develop methods of tracking how concepts emerge, are disseminated, stabilize and decay across different...
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Lives of Concepts

Optimal Matching

How best to create and disseminate knowledge?
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Optimal Matching

Tradition and Innovation

How do scientific conventions influence creativity and innovation?
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Levels of Description

There is the tendency and a risk for groups and fields to continuously focus on minute details.
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