Cesar Hidalgo

AI Is Reshaping What We Know About Cities

Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities.

Mapping The Most Influential Languages On Earth

How Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning Will Change The Way We Design Cities

MIT Media Lab Maps History’s Biggest Celebrities

From the Media Lab’s Macro Connections Group, an interconnected map of the 11,000 most famous people throughout history–and what their fame says about cultural values from one nation to the next.

New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data

DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps.

MIT’s Place Pulse: A “Hot Or Not” For Cities, To Fix Broken Blocks