How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability
The squad structure achieves autonomy without sacrificing accountability. Every squad owns its features throughout the product’s life cycle, and the…
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…
Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans
It’s a fact: while Americans have countless tools with which to connect with one another, we are also watching fragmentation, polarization, and…
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise
Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products…
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…
Design thinking origin story plus some of the people who made it all happen
Recently design thinking has gained momentum in the business world through mentions in the Harvard Business Review and Forbes publications. As a…
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…
Big data sets available for free
Source code and data for our Big Data keyword correlation API (see also section in separate chapter, in our book) Great statistical analysis:…