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Understanding and empowering human networks
Community Biotechnology Initiative
Invisible Ink is a certified mail application that demonstrates the utility of the blockchain for maintaining a public ledger of transact...
Ethos is a decentralized, Bitcoin-like network for storing and sharing valuable information. We provide transparency, control, and owners...
Lazarovich Amir
Creating technology for social change
Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself
New open-source website features blueprints for lab-on-a-chip devices.
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a sch...
Creating “swappable identities” for a bot, allowing a user to pose questions to an assortment of AI personae.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...
Have you ever wondered what would a friend do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family member might ...
Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life
A visiting scientist from NHK, Takahito Ito joined the Lab as a company member and left as a crew member.
Transforming data into knowledge
A collaboration to set up a "City Science Lab" to focus on the development of "smart" city infrastructure and autonomous vehicles.
Advancing Wellbeing
Scratch Memories is a dynamically generated, personalized web-based visualization that celebrates a Scratcher’s journey by highlighting t...
OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food - and we need your help! As an open source project, we be...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly signi cant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordina...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...
A platform for users to dynamically generate unique atlases of publicly available data based on their movement in the city.
The Electome: Where AI Meets Political JournalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
You Are Here is an experiment in microurbanism. In this project, we are creating 100 maps each of 100 different cities. Each map gives a...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
DIVE is a new data exploration platform that enables users to build rich stories from any dataset using just a few clicks. By combi...
The current interface of emails is designed around time and messages, pushing people to focus on what is more recent rather than importan...
Content and curriculum lie at the heart of every educational system, learning environment, and learning technology. Yet the infrastructur...
Y. Leng, A. Noriega, A.S. Pentland, I. Winder, N. Lutz, L. Alonso: "Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.
Y. Leng, L. Rudolph, A.S. Pentland, J. Zhao, H.N. Koutsopolous: "Managing travel demand: Location recommendation for system eciency based on mobile phone data". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.
Near the end of 2016 I completed an 8 week course from MIT on big data and social analytics. It was fascinating, challenging, timely, and...
A first thing is to find ways to control how data can be used. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab are dev...
FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...
Talk on "DESIGNING VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR LEARNERS"
Calling your senator or representative is intimidating. With FiftyNifty.org it is as easy as making a dinner reservation.FiftyNifty.org s...
Platt, E. L., Bhargava, R., & Zuckerman, E. (2015). The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends.
D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.
D’Ignazio, C., Bhargava, R., Zuckerman, E., & Beck, L. (2014). CLIFF-CLAVIN: Determining geographic focus for news. In NewsKDD: Data Science for News Publishing, at KDD 2014. New York, NY, USA.
Alhasoun, Fahad, et al. "The City Browser: Utilizing Massive Call Data to Infer City Mobility Dynamics." 3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2014). UrbComp: New York, NY. 2014.
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
DataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA makes availab...
The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems—the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offl...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...
Inspired by previous work in the field of sonification, we are building a data-driven composition platform that will enable users to map ...
In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic s...
Mapping the Globe is an interactive tool and map that helps us understand where the Boston Globe directs its attention. Media attention m...
The Civic Crowdfunding project is an initiative to collect data and advance social research into the emerging field of civic crowdfunding...
The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-sour...
As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their o...
More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. What We Watch is ...