Institute for Data, Systems, and Society: Recent submissions

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    • Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability 

      Balsa-Barreiro, Jose; Li, Yingcheng; Morales, Alfredo; Pentland, Alex (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019-12-10)
      World's human dynamics can be parameterized with metrics that explain the current model of economic growth and its sustainability. Changes in the world's human dynamics are crucial for understanding the current state of ...

    • Segregation and polarization in urban areas 

      Morales, Alfredo J.; Dong, Xiaowen; Bar-Yam, Yaneer; Pentland, Alex (Royal Society Open Science, 2019-10-23)
      Social behaviours emerge from the exchange of information among individuals—constrained by and reciprocally influencing the structure of information flows. The Internet radically transformed communication by democratizing ...

    • Winning Models for Grade Point Average, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge 

      Rigobon, Daniel E.; Jahani, Eaman; Suhara, Yoshihiko; AlGhoneim, Khaled; Alghunaim, Abdulaziz; e.a. (Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2019-09-10)
      In this article, the authors discuss and analyze their approach to the Fragile Families Challenge. The data consisted of more than 12,000 features (covariates) about the children and their parents, schools, and overall ...