This project seeks to examine the determinants of economic growth by using large-scale urban mobility networks. Leveraging the fine-grained…
The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…
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 …
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
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…
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automa…
Open Algorithms (OPAL)
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, sca…
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 …
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordinat…
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the i…
The recent availability of quantitative behavioral data provides an opportunity to study human behavior at unprecedented scale. Using large…
The understanding and modeling of social influence on human economic behavior in city environments can have important implications. In this…
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 critical question relevant to the increasing importance of crowd-sourced-based finance is how to optimize collective information processi…
A peer-to-peer network, enabling different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping the data completely private.…
We believe that the narrative of only listening to experts or trusting the wisdom of the crowd blindly is flawed. Instead we have developed…
We present Open Badges, an open-source framework and toolkit for measuring and shaping face-to-face social interactions using either custom…
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…
The Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) aims at creating a "living" laboratory integrated in the real life of the Trento territory in Italy, open …
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…
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's …
Data mining of email has provided important insights into how organizations function and what management practices lead to greater producti…