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

FriApr 26: Third Workshop on Crimes of Prediction

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 122, Regenstein Library, 1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL

Projects

Metaknowledge Grants

New data-driven metaknowledge projects about how ideas are formed and circulate
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Lives of Concepts

This project aims to develop methods of tracking how concepts emerge, are disseminated, stabilize and decay across different...
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Lives of Concepts

Computational History of Modernism

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

What makes some ideas long-lived and highly generative?
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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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Optimizing scientific reviewer assignments

Konrad Kording
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