How data can help change the world
At IDSS celebration, speakers explore how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.
At IDSS celebration, speakers explore how data can be brought to bear on global challenges.
Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.
New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
MIT professor talks about our need for face-to-face dialogue, in families, classrooms, and workplaces.
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
Sinan Aral studies peer effects and influence, with an eye toward tackling pressing social problems.
MIT social media strategist Stephanie Hatch Leishman highlights applications and resources that can streamline your workflow: Feedly, Flickr, Hootsuite, and IFTTT.
What are people at MIT doing on campus and around the world? Find out by exploring MIT Connect.
MIT alumni took their photo-aggregating app to market with help from the Institute.
Technique could be applied to the study of disease, social networks and other diverse fields.
In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
Want to know what’s up at MIT? Check out MIT Connect, an innovative social media portal recently launched by MIT’s Communication Production Services in collaboration with the News Office.
A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance and offers a new technique for analyzing data that fluctuate over time.