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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Projects

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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Levels of Description

There is the tendency and a risk for groups and fields to continuously focus on minute details.
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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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Mapping the Social and Technological Context of Cultural Production

Cesar A. Hidalgo
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Neurotree: Graphing the evolution of science through mentorship networks

Stephen V. David
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Optimizing scientific reviewer assignments

Konrad Kording
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