Friends at Work? Not So Much
ONCE, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company picnics and invited our colleagues over for dinner. Now, work is a more…
Why Being The Most Connected Is A Vanity Metric
A basic pattern of network science is clustering. People tend to gravitate to clusters for a lot of reasons whether it be working in the same company…
Why Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Few Americans today say they know their neighbors’ names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis. Pulling data from the General…
Building a Social Network One Choice at a Time
Newcomers to a social network show preferential attachment, a tendency to befriend those with many friends. Here, we show that preferential…
Environment - engineering serendipity
The loftlike San Francisco office of software maker Atlassian has an open central amphitheater, where all-staff gatherings and midday boot camp…
Hylo - A new kind of social network that helps real communities create, together.
Discover opportunities all around you. We’re surrounded by incredible people, skills, and resources. But it’s hard to know who to connect with, for…
Personality Insights
The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text…
Organizational Engineering using Sociometric Badges
We show how a wearable computing research plat- form for measuring and analyzing human behavior can be used to understand social systems. Using a…