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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Big Questions

How do we create knowledge about the Big Questions?
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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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The Zeitgeist of Science

"No man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time [der Geist seiner Zeit] is also his own spirit."
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Statistical Thinking: a scalable, online platform for identifying working scientists’ misconceptions

Christopher Lee
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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

Disambiguation Working Group

This Working Group is charged with disambiguating named entities (authors, institutions, etc) across the Knowledge Lab data set.
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