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    • Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata 

      de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre; Radaelli, Laura; Singh, Vivek Kumar; Pentland, Alex (Science, 2015-01-30)
      Large-scale data sets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we fight diseases, design cities, or perform research. Metadata, however, contain sensitive information. Understanding the privacy ...
    • Universal resilience patterns in labor markets 

      Moro, Esteban; Frank, Morgan R.; Pentland, Alex; Rutherford, Alex; Cebrian, Manuel; e.a. (Nature Communications, 2021-03-30)
      Cities are the innovation centers of the US economy, but technological disruptions can exclude workers and inhibit a middle class. Therefore, urban policy must promote the jobs and skills that increase worker pay, create ...
    • Unraveling the association between socioeconomic diversity and consumer price index in a tourism country 

      Leng, Yan; Babwany, Nakash Ali; Pentland, Alex (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume, 2021-06-28)
      Diversity has tremendous value in modern society. Economic theories suggest that cultural and ethnic diversity may contribute to economic development and prosperity. To date, however, the correspondence between diversity ...
    • User Profiling Based on Nonlinguistic Audio Data 

      Shen, Jiaxing; Cao, Jiannong; Lederman, Oren; Tang, Shaojie; Pentland, Alex (ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021-09-07)
      User profiling refers to inferring people’s attributes of interest (AoIs) like gender and occupation, which enables various applications ranging from personalized services to collective analyses. Massive nonlinguistic audio ...
    • A Web-Based Collaborative Decision Support System for National Water Policy Planning 

      Doufene, Abdelkrim; Aldawood, Salma; Ishimatsu, Takuto; Alhassan, Abdulaziz; Sanchez, Abel; e.a. (2020-06-13)
      In this paper, we introduce a web-based collaborative decision support system (WCDSS) to enable stakeholders to evaluate and refine complex scenarios addressing the location, timing, and technology of water and related ...
    • What Managers Need to Know About Data Exchanges 

      Parra-Moyano, Jose; Schmedders, Karl; Pentland, Alex (MIT Sloan Management Review, 2020-06-09)
    • Which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China? An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective 

      Yuan, Xiangfei; Hao, Haijing; Guan, Chenghua; Pentland, Alex (PLoS ONE, 2022-01-11)
      To examine which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China, the present study proposes an entrepreneurial ecosystem framework with four key areas, i.e., people, technology, capital, and ...
    • Winning Models for Grade Point Average, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge 

      Rigobon, Daniel E.; Jahani, Eaman; Suhara, Yoshihiko; AlGhoneim, Khaled; Alghunaim, Abdulaziz; e.a. (Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2019-09-10)
      In this article, the authors discuss and analyze their approach to the Fragile Families Challenge. The data consisted of more than 12,000 features (covariates) about the children and their parents, schools, and overall ...