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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Tradition and Innovation

How do scientific conventions influence creativity and innovation?
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Coevolution of Organizations and Ideas: Knowledge Creation and Transmission

Lynne G. Zucker
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Automatic curriculum generation from prerequisite concept networks

Hod Lipson
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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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Optimal Matching

How best to create and disseminate knowledge?
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Optimal Matching

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

Christopher Lee
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