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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Mapping the Social and Technological Context of Cultural Production

Cesar A. Hidalgo
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Tradition and Innovation

How do scientific conventions influence creativity and innovation?
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Statistical Thinking: a scalable, online platform for identifying working scientists’ misconceptions

Christopher Lee
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Hidden Models

In what ways do formal scientific models, as well as popular, cultural intuitions, shape scientific discovery?
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Neurotree: Graphing the evolution of science through mentorship networks

Stephen V. David
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Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Science

How are these average apes able to generate reliable, cumulative knowledge about reality?
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