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Publications

Academic

Jara-Figueroa, C., Yu, A.Z. and Hidalgo, C.A., 2015. The medium is the memory: how communication technologies shape what we remember. arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05020.

Yu, A.Z., Ronen, S., Hu, K., Lu, T. and Hidalgo, C.A., 2016. Pantheon 1.0, a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies. Scientific data, 3.

Ronen, S., Gonçalves, B., Hu, K.Z., Vespignani, A., Pinker, S. and Hidalgo, C.A., 2014. Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(52), pp.E5616-E5622.

Magazines

Cesar A. Hidalgo and Ali Almossawi. "The Data-Visualization Revolution." Scientific American. March 2014.

Hidalgo, C. A. "The Last 20 Inches: Data’s Treacherous Journey from the Screen to the Mind." MIT Technology Review. March 2014.

Press

Garner, Dwight. "Who's More Famous Than Jesus?" The New York Times Magazine. March 2014.

Rhodes, Margaret. "MIT Media Lab Maps History's Biggest Celebrities." Fast Company. March 2014.

Landry, Lauren. "Who are History's Biggest Celebrities? The MIT Media Lab Has the Answer." BostInno. March 2014.