Knowledge Lab

The wisdom of polarized crowds

Study of more than 200,000 Wikipedia pages finds that collaborations which bridge the political spectrum produce higher quality work.
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.

Events

MonJun 14: The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science

9:00 AM
Northwestern University

Projects

Representations of Knowledge

Over history, major discoveries have often been marked by new, frequently ingenious, methods of representing knowledge...
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Representations of Knowledge

Machine Science

Chip miniaturization and exponential economies of scale in production has lead to appreciable shifts in the way in which...
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Machine Science

Automatic curriculum generation from prerequisite concept networks

Hod Lipson
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Improving Semantic Search of the Scholarly Literature

Jevin D. West
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Big Questions

How do we create knowledge about the Big Questions?
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Statistical Thinking: a scalable, online platform for identifying working scientists’ misconceptions

Christopher Lee
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