Award-winning film “The Science of Success” features Dashun and his work
/How does success happen? This film reveals the hidden patterns that determine success. Understanding these powers has led scientists to be able to predict success.
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New paper featured on the cover of Nature Human Behaviour→
/In “Emergence of Scaling in Complex Substitutive Systems,” Dashun and his colleagues find that for subjects ranging from mobile handsets to automobiles and from smartphone apps to scientific fields, early growth patterns follow a power law with non-integer exponents.
Read MoreDashun is selected a 2019 Best 40 Under 40 Professor by Poets & Quants→
/Learn more about why he made the notable annual list
Read MoreNew paper in Nature Reviews Physics→
/Data show that apart from their prize-winning work, the careers of Nobel laureates follow the same patterns as those of the majority of scientists
Read MoreNew article in Harvard Business Review→
/Dashun and James A. Evans on when small teams are better than big ones
Read MoreNew paper in Nature→
/On how smaller teams tend to disrupt and larger teams tend to develop science and technology
Read MoreNew paper featured on the cover of Science→
/“Novelty and Hotspots,” authored by Dashun and Brian Uzzi, was part of the metaresearch forum “Toward a More Scientific Science”
Read MoreOp-ed in The Washington Post→
/Dashun on the science behind hot streaks in creative careers
Read MoreNew paper in Nature→
/On hot streaks in the careers of artists, film directors, and scientists
Read MoreNew paper in Science→
/Reviewing recent development in the science of science
Read MoreMeet our new postdocs
/Suman Kalyan Maity and Woo Seong Jo have joined our group
Read More“Science Paths” by Kim Albrecht Wins Gold Prize at the 2017 Information Is Beautiful Awards
/The visualization was based on our 2016 Science paper
Read MoreChing Jin successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis
/First Ph.D. graduate from our group!
Read MoreDashun was a visiting speaker at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University→
/Title: The Nature of Failure: Near Misses, Repeated Failures, and Their Paradoxical Benefits
Read MoreWatch Dashun’s Keynote from IC2S2 2017
/Title: Predictive Signals Behind Success
Read MoreNew paper in Nature Human Behavior→
/Authored with Tao Jia and and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Read MoreNew funding: Data Science Initiative at Northwestern University→
/A result of the university’s commitment to faculty engaged and interested in data science
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