Do modern cities still offer the opportunity to meet people from different income levels, social and ethnic groups and backgrounds?

An embedding-based disruption measure not only robustly captures disruptive works but also reveals simultaneous discoveries.

Explore income inequality among visitors to places in U.S. cities—an interactive map developed by the SUNLab at Northeastern and the Media Lab at MIT.

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...

A NetSci 2026 Satellite

GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality ...

A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

A meta-analysis of 168 studies reveals that economic inequality is not significantly associated with subjective well-being or mental health.

The National Zoning Atlas illuminates critical information about the land use regulations that shape our lives. Explore zoning conditions for the thousands of cities, towns, counties, and other jurisd...

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Abstract. Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who a