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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Aesthetics of Explanation

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

Great Scientists

What makes someone a great scientist or inventor
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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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Schools of Thought

This project seeks to define, find and analyze differences in schools of thought.
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Schools of Thought

Peer Review

Nearly all new discoveries, findings, theories and scientific speculations are filtered through peer evaluation.
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Hidden Models

In what ways do formal scientific models, as well as popular, cultural intuitions, shape scientific discovery?
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