Learning social network embeddings for predicting information diffusion
Analyzing and modeling the temporal diffusion of information on social media has mainly been treated as a diffusion process on known graphs or…
Teams vs. Crowds: A Field Test of the Relative Contribution of Incentives, Member Ability, and Collaboration to Crowd-Based Problem Solving Performance
Organizations are increasingly turning to crowdsourcing to solve difficult problems. This is often driven by the desire to find the best subject…
The Secret of Buckminister Fuller’s World-Changing Ideas Was Serendipity
In his 2016 book, You Belong to the Universe, Jonathon Keats sets out to release Buckminister Fuller from “the zany sci-fi designs that made him…
Data Approach the Helped Trump Win
The strength of their modeling was illustrated by how well it could predict a subject's answers. Kosinski continued to work on the models…
Networked leadership
These leadership patterns can be restricting or enabling. Knowing in the brain is a set of neural connections that correspond to our patterns of…
Uzzi and Spiro 2005 - AJS - Collaboration and Creativity - The Small World Problem
success of new musical productions in the twentieth century relies upon two key parameters: the ratio of new blood versus industry veterans, and the…
Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile
Since time immemorial humans have complained that life is becoming more complex, but it is only now that we have a hope to analyze formally and…
Five Strategies for Leading a High-Impact Team
Nobody sets out to lead an ineffective team. In fact, leaders agonize over fostering teams that work well together and deliver smart solutions time…
If everything is a network, nothing is a network
Only some of our proposed solutions for visualising the Waze traffic flows were ever put to the test. There’s only so much you can visualise when you…
This pioneering tech company figured how to make work-from-home work
A decade-plus of experimentation has led Automattic to its current set of tools: