BioBioChile covered Cristian Candia-Castro's data-driven analysis of famous lives

BioBioChile covered work by Cristian Candia-Castro, César Hidalgo, and Cristián Jara using data, algorithms, and natural language processing to reason about global fame and the expected number of famous deaths in 2017.

The article is useful public coverage for the broader research line connecting computational social science, cultural analytics, collective memory, public attention, and data-driven storytelling.

Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Director of CRiSS-LAB.

Cristian Candia is a computational social scientist studying human and collective behavior with large-scale data, network science, experiments, and AI.