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.

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Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Science

How are these average apes able to generate reliable, cumulative knowledge about reality?
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D.E.E.P: Discovering the Extent of Estimable Prediction in Science and Technology

What is the nature and extent of quantifiable prediction in science and technology (S&T)?
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Aesthetics of Explanation

Most knowledge-making processes aim at explanation.
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Aesthetics of Explanation

Peer Review

Nearly all new discoveries, findings, theories and scientific speculations are filtered through peer evaluation.
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The Zeitgeist of Science

"No man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time [der Geist seiner Zeit] is also his own spirit."
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Social Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series

2014-2015 Distinguished Lectures in Computational Social Sciences featuring: Duncan Watts, Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Pentland
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