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

Metaknowledge Grants

New data-driven metaknowledge projects about how ideas are formed and circulate
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Global Literary Networks

Global Literary Networks explores quantitative approaches to the sociology of literary and cultural production.
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Aesthetics of Explanation

Hidden Models

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

Schools of Thought

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

Statistical Thinking: a scalable, online platform for identifying working scientists’ misconceptions

Christopher Lee
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