Publications

Siddarth, Divya, Daron Acemoglu, Danielle Allen, Kate Crawford, James Evans, Michael Jordan, E. Glen Weyl
Harvard Justice, Health, and Democracy Impact Initiative

Too many cooks: Coordinating multi-agent collaboration through inverse planning

Wu, Sarah A., Rose E. Wang, James A. Evans, Josh Tenenbaum, David C. Parkes, and Max Kleiman-Weiner
CogSci

Human Evaluation of Interpretability: The Case of AI-Generated Music Knowledge

Yu, Haizi, Heinrich Taube, James A. Evans, and Lav R. Varshney
Computer Human Interaction (CHI)

Computation and the sociological imagination

Evans, James, and Jacob G. Foster
Contexts

Machine science

Evans, James, and Andrey Rzhetsky
Science

AI Societies

Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation

Lai, Shiyang, Yujin Potter, Junsol Kim, Richard Zhuang, Dawn Song, James Evans
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Weyl, Glen, Audrey Tang, and the Plurality Community
Online Publication

Social computing unhinged

Evans, James
Journal of Social Computing

Too many cooks: Coordinating multi-agent collaboration through inverse planning

Wu, Sarah A., Rose E. Wang, James A. Evans, Josh Tenenbaum, David C. Parkes, and Max Kleiman-Weiner
CogSci

Deep Learning

Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation

Lai, Shiyang, Yujin Potter, Junsol Kim, Richard Zhuang, Dawn Song, James Evans
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading

Evans, James and Jacob Foster
Critical Inquiry

Human Languages with Greater Information Density Increase Communication Speed, but Decrease Conversation Breadth

Aceves, Pete and James Evans
Nature Human Behaviour

Disrupted Routines Anticipate Musical Exploration

Kim, Khwan, Noah Askin, and James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Counterfactual Mobility Network Embedding Reveals Prevalent Accessibility Gaps in U.S. Cities

Li, Yong, Yunke Zhang, Fengli Xu, Lin Chen, Yuan Yuan, James Evans, and Luis Bettencourt
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

The Past as a Stochastic Process

Wolpert, David, Stefani Crabtree, Michael Price, Manfred Laubichler, Timothy Kohler, James Evans, Hajime Shimao, Juergen Jost, Peter Stadler
Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

Do online certifications improve job market outcomes? Evidence from an IT skills certification platform in India

Sengupta, Nandana, Neaketa Chawla, Anna Agrawal, and James Evans
Information Economics and Policy

Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance

Duede, Eamon, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim Lakhani and James Evans
Research Policy

Scientific Networks

Kang, Donghyun and James Evans
SAGE Social Network Analysis Handbook

Information Lattice Learning

Yu, Haizi, James Evans, Lav Varshney
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

The High-dimensional Space of Human Diseases Built from Diagnosis Records and Mapped to Genetic Loci

Jia, Gengjie, Yu Li, Xue Zhong, Kanix Wang, Milton Pividori, Rabab Alomairy, Aniello Esposito, Hatem Ltaief, Chikashi Terao, Masato Akiyama, Koichi Matsuda, David E. Keyes, Hae Kyung Im, Takashi Gojobori, Yoichiro Kamatani, Michiaki Kubo, Nancy J. Cox, James Evans, Xin Gao, Andrey Rzhetsky
Nature Computational Science

In her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India

Sengupta, Nandana, Ashwini Vaidya, and James Evans
ACM FAccT

Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory within Organization Science

Aceves, Pedro and James Evans
Organization Science

Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrating Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Almaatouq, Abdullah, Thomas Griffiths, Jordan W. Suchow, Mark Whiting, James Evans, and Duncan Watts
Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Missing Value Imputation and Sparse Data Reconstruction through Matrix Factorization

Sengupta, Nandana, Madeleine Udell, Nathan Srebro, James Evans
Sociological Methodology

Author-suggested reviewers rate manuscripts much more favorably: a cross-sectional analysis of the neuroscience section of PLOS ONE

Daniel Acuña, Misha Teplitskiy, James Evans, Konrad Körding
PLOS ONE

Misalignment Between Skills Discovered, Disseminated, and Deployed in the Knowledge Economy

Desikan, Bhargav Srinivasa, and James Evans
Journal of Social Computing

Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity

Chen, Lin, Fengli Xu, Zhenyu Han, Kun Tang, Pan Hui, James Evans, Yong Li
Nature Human Behaviour

(Re)discovering Laws of Music Theory using Information Lattice Learning

Yu, Haizi, Lav Varshney, Heinrich Taub, James Evans
IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine: Special Issue on Information Processing in Arts and Humanities

Flat Teams Drive Scientific Innovation

Xu, Fengli, Lingfei Wu, James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Event-level Prediction of Urban Crime Reveals Signature of Enforcement Bias in U.S. Cities

Rotaru, Victor, Yi Huang, Timmy Li, James Evans, and Ishanu Chattopadhyay
Nature Human Behaviour

NERO: a biomedical named-entity (recognition) ontology with a large, annotated corpus reveals meaningful associations through text embedding

Kanix Wang, Robert Stevens, Halima Alachram, Yu Li, Larisa Soldatova, Ross King, Sophia Ananiadou, Annika M. Schoene, Maolin Li, Fenia Christopoulou, José Luis Ambite, Joel Matthew, Sahil Garg, Ulf Hermjakob, Daniel Marcu, Emily Sheng, Tim Beißbarth, Edgar Wingender, Aram Galstyan, Xin Gao, Brendan Chambers, Weidi Pan, Bohdan B. Khomtchouk, James A. Evans & Andrey Rzhetsky
npj Systems Biology and Applications

The Skills Space of Informal Work: Insights from Bangalore Slums

Nandana Sengupta, Sarthak Gaurav and James Evans
The Journal of Development Studies

Aligning Multidimensional Worldviews and Aligning Ideological Differences

Jeremiah Milbauer, Adarsh Mathew, James Evans
EMNLP

Social connection induces cultural contraction: Evidence from hyperbolic embeddings of social and semantic networks

Wu, Lingfei, Linzhuo Li, and James Evans
Poetics

Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security

Yin, Yian, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang
Nature

The geometry of culture: Analyzing the meanings of class through word embeddings

Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans
American Sociological Review

Centralized scientific communities are less likely to generate replicable results

Danchev, Valentin, Andrey Rzhetsky, and James A. Evans
Elife

Simple surveys: Response retrieval inspired by recommendation systems

Sengupta, Nandana, Nati Srebro, and James Evans
Social Science Computer Review

Ambiguity and engagement

McMahan, Peter, and James Evans
American Journal of Sociology

Curvature of hypergraphs via multi-marginal optimal transport

Asoodeh, Shahab, Tingran Gao, and James Evans
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Wasserstein soft label propagation on hypergraphs: Algorithm and generalization error bounds

Gao, Tingran, Shahab Asoodeh, Yi Huang, and James Evans
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Skill discrepancies between research, education, and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy

Börner, Katy, Olga Scrivner, Mike Gallant, Shutian Ma, Xiaozhong Liu, Keith Chewning, Lingfei Wu, and James A. Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The sociology of scientific validity: How professional networks shape judgement in peer review

Teplitskiy, Misha, Daniel Acuna, Aïda Elamrani-Raoult, Konrad Körding, and James Evans
Research Policy

Adaptive sampling for coarse ranking

Katariya, Sumeet, Lalit Jain, Nandana Sengupta, James Evans, and Robert Nowak
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science

Shi, Feng, Yongren Shi, Fedor A. Dokshin, James A. Evans, and Michael W. Macy
Nature Human Behaviour

Reconciling the small effect of rankings on university performance with the transformational cost of conformity

Tutterow, Craig, and James A. Evans
The university under pressure. Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Weaving the fabric of science: Dynamic network models of science's unfolding structure

Shi, Feng, Jacob G. Foster, and James A. Evans
Social Networks

Proposing ties in a dense hypergraph of academics

Gerow, Aaron, Bowen Lou, Eamon Duede, and James Evans
International Conference on Social Informatics

Modeling the transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a dynamic agent-based simulation

Macal, Charles M., Michael J. North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja M. Dukic, Duane T. Wegener, Michael Z. David, Robert S. Daum et al.
Journal of translational medicine

Modeling the spread of community-associated MRSA

Macal, Charles M., Michael J. North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja M. Dukic, Diane S. Lauderdale, Michael Z. David, Robert S. Daum et al.
Proceedings of the 2012 Winter simulation conference (WSC)

Industry collaboration, scientific sharing, and the dissemination of knowledge

Evans, James A.
Social Studies of Science

Industry induces academic science to know less about more

Evans, James A.
American Journal of Sociology

Nonprofit Research Institutes: From Companies without Products to Universities without Students

Evans, James A.
Politics and Partnerships

Novel opportunities for computational biology and sociology in drug discovery

Yao, Lixia, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky
Trends in biotechnology

Start-ups in science: Entrepreneurs, diverse backing, and novelty outside business

Evans, James A.
The sociology of entrepreneurship. Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Why do contractors contract? The experience of highly skilled technical professionals in a contingent labor market

Kunda, Gideon, Stephen R. Barley, and James Evans
ILR Review

Computational Social Science

Evolving AI Collectives to Enhance Human Diversity and Enable Self-Regulation

Lai, Shiyang, Yujin Potter, Junsol Kim, Richard Zhuang, Dawn Song, James Evans
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Big Data and the Computational Social Science of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Li, Ninzi, Shiyang Lai, and James Evans
De Gruyter Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Human Languages with Greater Information Density Increase Communication Speed, but Decrease Conversation Breadth

Aceves, Pete and James Evans
Nature Human Behaviour

Disrupted Routines Anticipate Musical Exploration

Kim, Khwan, Noah Askin, and James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Counterfactual Mobility Network Embedding Reveals Prevalent Accessibility Gaps in U.S. Cities

Li, Yong, Yunke Zhang, Fengli Xu, Lin Chen, Yuan Yuan, James Evans, and Luis Bettencourt
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

The Past as a Stochastic Process

Wolpert, David, Stefani Crabtree, Michael Price, Manfred Laubichler, Timothy Kohler, James Evans, Hajime Shimao, Juergen Jost, Peter Stadler
Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

Do online certifications improve job market outcomes? Evidence from an IT skills certification platform in India

Sengupta, Nandana, Neaketa Chawla, Anna Agrawal, and James Evans
Information Economics and Policy

Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance

Duede, Eamon, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim Lakhani and James Evans
Research Policy

Scientific Networks

Kang, Donghyun and James Evans
SAGE Social Network Analysis Handbook

The High-dimensional Space of Human Diseases Built from Diagnosis Records and Mapped to Genetic Loci

In her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India

Sengupta, Nandana, Ashwini Vaidya, and James Evans
ACM FAccT

Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory within Organization Science

Aceves, Pedro and James Evans
Organization Science

Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrating Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Almaatouq, Abdullah, Thomas Griffiths, Jordan W. Suchow, Mark Whiting, James Evans, and Duncan Watts
Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Author-suggested reviewers rate manuscripts much more favorably: a cross-sectional analysis of the neuroscience section of PLOS ONE

Daniel Acuña, Misha Teplitskiy, James Evans, Konrad Körding
PLOS ONE

Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity

Chen, Lin, Fengli Xu, Zhenyu Han, Kun Tang, Pan Hui, James Evans, Yong Li
Nature Human Behaviour

Flat Teams Drive Scientific Innovation

Xu, Fengli, Lingfei Wu, James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart

Evans, James
Sociological Methods and Research

How AI Fails Us

Siddarth, Divya, Daron Acemoglu, Danielle Allen, Kate Crawford, James Evans, Michael Jordan, E. Glen Weyl
Harvard Justice, Health, and Democracy Impact Initiative

NERO: a biomedical named-entity (recognition) ontology with a large, annotated corpus reveals meaningful associations through text embedding

The Skills Space of Informal Work: Insights from Bangalore Slums

Nandana Sengupta, Sarthak Gaurav and James Evans
The Journal of Development Studies

Aligning Multidimensional Worldviews and Aligning Ideological Differences

Jeremiah Milbauer, Adarsh Mathew, James Evans
EMNLP

Does Big Data Serve Policy? Not Without Context. An Experiment with in silico Social Science

Graziul, Chris, Alexander Belikov, Ishanu Chattopadyay, Ziwen Chen, Hongbo Fang, Anuraag Girdhar, Xiaoshuang Jia, PM Krafft, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Candice Lewis, Chen Liang, John Muchovej, Alejandro Vientós, Meg Young, James Evans
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Against method: Exploding the boundary between qualitative and quantitative studies of science

Kang, Donghyun, and James Evans
Quantitative Science Studies

Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security

Yin, Yian, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang
Nature

Computation and the sociological imagination

Evans, James, and Jacob G. Foster
Contexts

Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology

Wu, Lingfei, Dashun Wang, and James A. Evans
Nature

Ambiguity and engagement

McMahan, Peter, and James Evans
American Journal of Sociology

The wisdom of polarized crowds

Shi, Feng, Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, and James A. Evans
Nature Human Behaviour

Skill discrepancies between research, education, and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy

Börner, Katy, Olga Scrivner, Mike Gallant, Shutian Ma, Xiaozhong Liu, Keith Chewning, Lingfei Wu, and James A. Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The sociology of scientific validity: How professional networks shape judgement in peer review

Teplitskiy, Misha, Daniel Acuna, Aïda Elamrani-Raoult, Konrad Körding, and James Evans
Research Policy

Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science

Shi, Feng, Yongren Shi, Fedor A. Dokshin, James A. Evans, and Michael W. Macy
Nature Human Behaviour

Reconciling the small effect of rankings on university performance with the transformational cost of conformity

Tutterow, Craig, and James A. Evans
The university under pressure. Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Tradition and innovation in scientists' research strategies

Foster, Jacob G., Andrey Rzhetsky, and James A. Evans
American Sociological Review

Health ROI as a measure of misalignment of biomedical needs and resources

Yao, Lixia, Ying Li, Soumitra Ghosh, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky
Nature Biotechnology

Proposing ties in a dense hypergraph of academics

Gerow, Aaron, Bowen Lou, Eamon Duede, and James Evans
International Conference on Social Informatics

Finding cultural holes: How structure and culture diverge in networks of scholarly communication

Vilhena, Daril A., Jacob G. Foster, Martin Rosvall, Jevin D. West, James Evans, and Carl T. Bergstrom
Sociological Science

Modeling the transmission of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a dynamic agent-based simulation

Macal, Charles M., Michael J. North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja M. Dukic, Duane T. Wegener, Michael Z. David, Robert S. Daum et al.
Journal of translational medicine

Attention to local health burden and the global disparity of health research

Evans, James A., Jae-Mahn Shim, and John PA Ioannidis
PloS one

Modeling the spread of community-associated MRSA

Macal, Charles M., Michael J. North, Nicholson Collier, Vanja M. Dukic, Diane S. Lauderdale, Michael Z. David, Robert S. Daum et al.
Proceedings of the 2012 Winter simulation conference (WSC)

Conflicting biomedical assumptions for mathematical modeling: the case of cancer metastasis

Divoli, Anna, Eneida A. Mendonça, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky
PLoS Computational Biology

Industry collaboration, scientific sharing, and the dissemination of knowledge

Evans, James A.
Social Studies of Science

Industry induces academic science to know less about more

Evans, James A.
American Journal of Sociology

Nonprofit Research Institutes: From Companies without Products to Universities without Students

Evans, James A.
Politics and Partnerships

Novel opportunities for computational biology and sociology in drug discovery

Yao, Lixia, James A. Evans, and Andrey Rzhetsky
Trends in biotechnology

Start-ups in science: Entrepreneurs, diverse backing, and novelty outside business

Evans, James A.
The sociology of entrepreneurship. Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Why do contractors contract? The experience of highly skilled technical professionals in a contingent labor market

Kunda, Gideon, Stephen R. Barley, and James Evans
ILR Review

AI-Driven S&T Policy Forge

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Weyl, Glen, Audrey Tang, and the Plurality Community
Online Publication

Does Big Data Serve Policy? Not Without Context. An Experiment with in silico Social Science

Computational Creativity

Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading

Evans, James and Jacob Foster
Critical Inquiry

Disrupted Routines Anticipate Musical Exploration

Kim, Khwan, Noah Askin, and James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Hypotheses devised by AI could find 'blind spots' in research Artificial intelligence is asking questions that humans hope to answer

Hutson, Matthew
Nature

(Re)discovering Laws of Music Theory using Information Lattice Learning

Yu, Haizi, Lav Varshney, Heinrich Taub, James Evans
IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine: Special Issue on Information Processing in Arts and Humanities

Human Evaluation of Interpretability: The Case of AI-Generated Music Knowledge

Yu, Haizi, Heinrich Taube, James A. Evans, and Lav R. Varshney
Computer Human Interaction (CHI)

Promiscuous inventions

Foster, Jacob G., and James A. Evans
Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. University of Minnesota Press

Machine science

Evans, James, and Andrey Rzhetsky
Science

Digital Minds

Algorithmic Abduction: Robots for Alien Reading

Evans, James and Jacob Foster
Critical Inquiry

Information Lattice Learning

Yu, Haizi, James Evans, Lav Varshney
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

The Craft and Code Binary: Before, During, and After

Evans, James, Tyler Reigeluth, and Adrian Johns
Osiris

How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures

Evans, James and Adrian Johns
Osiris

Human Evaluation of Interpretability: The Case of AI-Generated Music Knowledge

Yu, Haizi, Heinrich Taube, James A. Evans, and Lav R. Varshney
Computer Human Interaction (CHI)

Existential Epistemology

Human Languages with Greater Information Density Increase Communication Speed, but Decrease Conversation Breadth

Aceves, Pete and James Evans
Nature Human Behaviour

The Craft and Code Binary: Before, During, and After

Evans, James, Tyler Reigeluth, and Adrian Johns
Osiris

How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures

Evans, James and Adrian Johns
Osiris

Destructive Creation, Creative Destruction, and the Paradox of Innovation Science

Cao, Likun, Ziwen Chen, James Evans
Sociological Compass

How AI Fails Us

Siddarth, Divya, Daron Acemoglu, Danielle Allen, Kate Crawford, James Evans, Michael Jordan, E. Glen Weyl
Harvard Justice, Health, and Democracy Impact Initiative

Computation and the sociological imagination

Evans, James, and Jacob G. Foster
Contexts

The geometry of culture: Analyzing the meanings of class through word embeddings

Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans
American Sociological Review

Ambiguity and engagement

McMahan, Peter, and James Evans
American Journal of Sociology

The modular community structure of linguistic predication networks

Gerow, Aaron, and James Evans
Proceedings of TextGraphs-9: the workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

Communication and the evolution of cognition

Evans, James A.
Developing scaffolding in evolution, cognition and culture. MIT Press, Cambridge

War of ontology worlds: mathematics, computer code, or Esperanto?

Rzhetsky, Andrey, and James A. Evans
PLoS Computational Biology

Modeling Cultural Worlds

Local similarity and global variability characterize the semantic space of human languages

Lewis, Molly and James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Counterfactual Mobility Network Embedding Reveals Prevalent Accessibility Gaps in U.S. Cities

Li, Yong, Yunke Zhang, Fengli Xu, Lin Chen, Yuan Yuan, James Evans, and Luis Bettencourt
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

The Past as a Stochastic Process

Wolpert, David, Stefani Crabtree, Michael Price, Manfred Laubichler, Timothy Kohler, James Evans, Hajime Shimao, Juergen Jost, Peter Stadler
Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

Do online certifications improve job market outcomes? Evidence from an IT skills certification platform in India

Sengupta, Nandana, Neaketa Chawla, Anna Agrawal, and James Evans
Information Economics and Policy

Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance

Duede, Eamon, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim Lakhani and James Evans
Research Policy

Scientific Networks

Kang, Donghyun and James Evans
SAGE Social Network Analysis Handbook

Accelerating Science through Human-Aware Artificial Intelligence

Sourati, Jamshid and James Evans
Nature Human Behaviour

Hypotheses devised by AI could find 'blind spots' in research Artificial intelligence is asking questions that humans hope to answer

Hutson, Matthew
Nature

The High-dimensional Space of Human Diseases Built from Diagnosis Records and Mapped to Genetic Loci

In her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India

Sengupta, Nandana, Ashwini Vaidya, and James Evans
ACM FAccT

Mobilizing Conceptual Spaces: How Word Embedding Models Can Inform Measurement and Theory within Organization Science

Aceves, Pedro and James Evans
Organization Science

How and Why to Historicize Algorithmic Cultures

Evans, James and Adrian Johns
Osiris

Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrating Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Almaatouq, Abdullah, Thomas Griffiths, Jordan W. Suchow, Mark Whiting, James Evans, and Duncan Watts
Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Author-suggested reviewers rate manuscripts much more favorably: a cross-sectional analysis of the neuroscience section of PLOS ONE

Daniel Acuña, Misha Teplitskiy, James Evans, Konrad Körding
PLOS ONE

Flat Teams Drive Scientific Innovation

Xu, Fengli, Lingfei Wu, James Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Data on How Science is Made can Make Science Better

Sourati, Jamshid, Alexander Belikov, James Evans
Harvard Data Science Review

Prediction of robust scientific facts from literature

Belikov, Alexander V., Andrey Rzhetsky, James Evans
Nature Machine Intelligence

NERO: a biomedical named-entity (recognition) ontology with a large, annotated corpus reveals meaningful associations through text embedding

The Skills Space of Informal Work: Insights from Bangalore Slums

Nandana Sengupta, Sarthak Gaurav and James Evans
The Journal of Development Studies

Aligning Multidimensional Worldviews and Aligning Ideological Differences

Jeremiah Milbauer, Adarsh Mathew, James Evans
EMNLP

The New Rules of Knowledge: An Introduction

Evans, James, and Adrian Johns
Critical Inquiry

Against method: Exploding the boundary between qualitative and quantitative studies of science

Kang, Donghyun, and James Evans
Quantitative Science Studies

Social connection induces cultural contraction: Evidence from hyperbolic embeddings of social and semantic networks

Wu, Lingfei, Linzhuo Li, and James Evans
Poetics

Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security

Yin, Yian, Yang Wang, James A. Evans, and Dashun Wang
Nature

The geometry of culture: Analyzing the meanings of class through word embeddings

Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans
American Sociological Review

Centralized scientific communities are less likely to generate replicable results

Danchev, Valentin, Andrey Rzhetsky, and James A. Evans
Elife

Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology

Wu, Lingfei, Dashun Wang, and James A. Evans
Nature

Curvature of hypergraphs via multi-marginal optimal transport

Asoodeh, Shahab, Tingran Gao, and James Evans
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Promiscuous inventions

Foster, Jacob G., and James A. Evans
Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. University of Minnesota Press

Wasserstein soft label propagation on hypergraphs: Algorithm and generalization error bounds

Gao, Tingran, Shahab Asoodeh, Yi Huang, and James Evans
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Skill discrepancies between research, education, and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy

Börner, Katy, Olga Scrivner, Mike Gallant, Shutian Ma, Xiaozhong Liu, Keith Chewning, Lingfei Wu, and James A. Evans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Political Polarization

The wisdom of polarized crowds

Shi, Feng, Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, and James A. Evans
Nature Human Behaviour

Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science

Shi, Feng, Yongren Shi, Fedor A. Dokshin, James A. Evans, and Michael W. Macy
Nature Human Behaviour