Knowledge Lab

Political Echo Chambers in the Consumption of Science

Reader preferences for liberal or conservative political books also attract them to different types of science books.
Testing Economics from the Celestial Observatory

Satellite data on nighttime lights used to validate broad, macroeconomic theories of economic convergence and divergence.
Tradition and Innovation in Scientists’ Research Strategies

Studying winners of 137 science prizes, we show that the occasional “gamble” for impact is a plausible reason for levels of risk-taking.
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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Computationally Scalable Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional Record Linkage

Rebecca Carter Steorts
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Improving Semantic Search of the Scholarly Literature

Jevin D. West
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Mapping the Social and Technological Context of Cultural Production

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

Stephen V. David
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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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