Cesar Hidalgo

Head of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT

Cesar A. Hidalgo is the head of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab and the ABC Career Development Professor at MIT. An antidisciplinary academic by choice, and a poet at heart, Hidalgo focuses on improving our understanding of the world’s complexity. His tools include the construction of visualization engines that make available unwieldy volumes of data; the development of data-collection methods and metrics that make visible hitherto neglected aspects of our reality; and the development of theories and narratives that can help put together the pieces that reductionist approaches have pulled apart.

Stories about Cesar Hidalgo

Impact

This Plan For An AI-Based Direct Democracy Outsources Votes To A Predictive Algorithm

MIT Media Lab’s Cesar Hidalgo imagines a system of direct democracy fueled by personalized digital agents that vote on issues for us.

Co.Design

AI Is Reshaping What We Know About Cities

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

Innovation By Design

Mapping The Most Influential Languages On Earth

Innovation By Design

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

Innovation By Design

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.

Innovation By Design

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.

Co.Design

Cesar Hidalgo

Head of the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT

Stories about Cesar Hidalgo

This Plan For An AI-Based Direct Democracy Outsources Votes To A Predictive Algorithm

MIT Media Lab’s Cesar Hidalgo imagines a system of direct democracy fueled by personalized digital agents that vote on issues for us.

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

Impact

Forests are a big part of the climate solution, but we’re not fixing the problem

London is going to use heat from the Underground to help heat its homes

NGOs need business’s help: Here are the best ways to offer support

Creativity

A shocking 73% of stories on LGBTQ websites are being flagged as unsafe for brands, survey says

Let’s talk about SNL’s most important new cast member: Bowen Yang

The Jennifer Lopez-Constance Wu movie ‘Hustlers’ shows how the world runs on strip club rules

Co.Design

This smart toilet seat monitors your heart health through your gluteus maximus

Another reason to silence your notifications: They could alter your memory

Fabric dyes are a toxic problem. These beautiful alternative colors are made out of food waste

Work Life

When your body calls time-out

What to do if your boss is professionally ‘breadcrumbing’ you

The five-minute email rule completely transformed the way I work