#Urban Science #inequality #Big Data Behavioral roots of inequality Inequality is one of the most important problems in our societies. For example, economic inequality is today higher than it was in the 1970’s and by some metrics stands at levels not seen since the … ...
#food #nutrition #Data Science Behavioral-network determinants of health outcomes. Our behavior conditions our health. Exposure to infections depends on our and other people’s mobility. Exposure to healthy environments or habits depends on our choices and opportunities. Although … ...
#resilience #Labour Markets #Data Science Creating resilient urban labor economies Like ecosystems, societies with adaptable economies are best prepared for the future. We started a research program to understand and detect economic resilience encoded in the dependency networks of … ...
#social media #Twitter #Facebook #Sensors Social networks as economic and social sensors Temporal, structural and activity patterns in social networks are related to human behavior. Thus, networks do have different shape and dynamics under different exogenous and endogenous shocks or … ...
#social networks #Human Dynamics #Big Data The dynamic character of our networked society We live in a networked society and our actions, opinions, behaviors are affected and can affect other people. Understanding such social networked structures is one of the key challenges in our attempt … ...
#stock market #Human behavior #Big Data Financial markets as empirical labs to study the evolving ecology of human decision making Human decision making strategies evolve through time based on past experience and they are influence by the spectrum of other strategies with which they come into contact. Financial markets provide … ...