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

Knowledge Hierarchies and Natural Navigation

Tim Weninger
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Mode and Tempo in Technological Evolution: innovation, extinction, and the dynamics of technological

Michael Alfaro
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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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Great Scientists

What makes someone a great scientist or inventor
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Neurotree: Graphing the evolution of science through mentorship networks

Stephen V. David
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Computational History of Modernism

Our project brings these two strands together to model a new form of literary criticism.
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