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Human Dynamics
Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
Yourfeed is a modular tool for ecologically valid social media research. Designed to mirror the design of a social media newsfeed, Yourfeed…
This project seeks to examine the determinants of economic growth by using large-scale urban mobility networks. Leveraging the fine-grained…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
We take a computational lens to the analysis of a far-right online forum, using network analysis and natural language processing to underst…
Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data a…
This strand of work seeks to develop new interventions to reduce the spread of information, and deploy those interventions towards a crowds…
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research groups …
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…
Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies in the developing world with global penetration rates reaching 90%. Mobile phone …
Participants in cryptocurrency markets are in constant communication with each other about the latest coins and news releases. Do thes…
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automa…
Open Algorithms (OPAL)
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, sca…
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited number …
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individuals …
The recent availability of quantitative behavioral data provides an opportunity to study human behavior at unprecedented scale. Using large…
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordinat…
bandicoot provides a complete, easy-to-use environment for researchers using mobile phone metadata. It allows them to easily load their dat…
Even when real names and other personal information are stripped from metadata datasets, it is often possible to use just a few pieces of i…
A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private.…
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the i…
A critical question relevant to the increasing importance of crowd-sourced-based finance is how to optimize collective information processi…
The understanding and modeling of social influence on human economic behavior in city environments can have important implications. In this…
Data mining of email has provided important insights into how organizations function and what management practices lead to greater producti…
Data-Pop Alliance is a joint initiative on big data and development with a goal of helping to craft and leverage the new ecosystem of big d…
We believe that the narrative of only listening to experts or trusting the wisdom of the crowd blindly is flawed. Instead we have developed…
In a world where sensors, data storage, and processing power are too cheap to meter, how do you ensure that users can realize the full valu…
We present Open Badges, an open-source framework and toolkit for measuring and shaping face-to-face social interactions using either custom…
The Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) aims at creating a "living" laboratory integrated in the real life of the Trento territory in Italy, open …
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's …