Transforming data into knowledge

Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded.…

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE co…

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should tar…

Social learning has shown that people are more likely to learn from those who are seen as prestigious, talented, or who share demographic a…

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes mor…

Visit DataUSADataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA ma…

DataViva made available data for the entire economy of Brazil, including exports and imports for each municipality and product, and occupat…

During the last few decades two important intellectual contributions have reshaped our understanding of international trade. On the one han…

The current interface of emails is designed around time and messages, pushing people to focus on what is more recent rather than important.…

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

StreetScore is a machine learning algorithm that predicts the perceived safety of a streetscape. StreetScore was trained using 2,920 images…

In 1990 Germany began the reunification of two separate research systems. Yet, the institutional unification of these system does not neces…

The mismatch between the supply of graduates’ skills and the needs of the labor market has become increasingly obvious and problematic over…

It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instance…

Mapping the urban perception

Can I borrow your network? Shout! is a marketplace for retweets that allows people to exchange micro-contracts for future retweets. Shout! …

The boom in Chinese housing prices in recent years has given rise to intensive concern about  the economic fundamentals of housin…

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…

In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipedi…

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and in…

Decades ago development scholars argued that the productive structure of a country (i. e. the mix of industries operating in the country) c…

What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …