Cesar A. Hidalgo

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

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

Mapping the urban perception

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And wh…

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

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, …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An animated GIF is a magical thing. It has the power to compactly convey emotion, empathy, and context in a subtle way that text or emotico…

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

Opus is an online tool exploring the work and trajectory of scholars. Through a suite of interactive visualizations, Opus help users explor…

Immersion is a visual data experiment that delivers a fresh perspective of your email inbox. Focusing on a people-centric approach rather t…

We used 15 months of data from 1.5 million people to show that four points--approximate places and times--are enough to identify 95 percent…

Most interactions between cultures require overcoming a language barrier, which is why multilingual speakers play an important role in faci…

With more than six billion people and 15 billion products, the world economy is anything but simple. The Economic Complexity Observatory is…

QUANTIFY is a generalized framework and JavaScript library to allow rapid multi-dimensional "measurement" of subjective qualities of media.…

Some of the world's most pressing problems can be traced to inequity between people, both in the present and over time. Long periods of ine…