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Data Science
Unsupervised learning for social systems
Why clustering, embeddings, and latent representations matter for studying education, culture, organizations, mobility, and collective behavior.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on May 30, 2026
When insecurity changes how people move
What the EPJ Data Science paper on insecurity and urban mobility says about gender, safety, and daily movement.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on May 30, 2026
Feelings of insecurity as a gender-specific constraint on urban mobility
Crime and violence shape perceived insecurity in cities, but their consequences are not gender neutral. This article links perceived …
Hugo Contreras
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Cristian Candia
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Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert
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Leo Ferres
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Rodrigo Troncoso
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Network Science and Complex Systems
Course on complex networks, graph analytics, null models, communities, diffusion, and graph machine learning.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
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Unsupervised Machine Learning
Course on clustering, dimensionality reduction, representation learning, topic models, anomaly detection, embeddings, and unsupervised workflows for behavioral and social data.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
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High earnings through firm influence: the role of hierarchical structures in public procurement
Public procurement markets are highly structured networks. Using over one million Portuguese public procurement contracts, this article …
Niclas Frederic Sturm
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Cristian Candia
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Bruno Damásio
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Flavio Pinheiro
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IDS UDD profiled CRiSS-LAB and Cristian Candia's work on collective intelligence
The UDD Data Science Institute profiled CRiSS-LAB as a laboratory studying collective intelligence, collective memory, online engagement, education, and applied tools such as Capybara and Lixandria.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 2, 2026
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Causal Inference for Data Science
Course module on causal questions, identification, quasi-experiments, observational data, and policy evaluation.
Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
Beyond Core-Periphery: Uncovering the Impacts of Scientific Networks on Resources and Recognition. [Virtual Talk]
Abstract: [ENG] We discuss two projects that quantify the consequences of our network location for our access to resources and rewards in science. First, we investigate the dynamics of international science through the lens of national citation preferences, introducing a novel measure to characterize these processes and enabling a network analysis of global knowledge production.
Sep 8, 2023 11:00 AM
CRiSS-LAB, UDD, Las Condes, Chile.
Alexander Gates
Tracking the Emergence of Cooperation in Complex Networks [Virtual Talk]
Abstract: [ENG] It is well known that social networks fundamentally impact the dynamic processes of the populations they support. Examples include epidemic outbreaks, the diffusion of innovations, opinion formation, and behavioral evolution.
May 12, 2023 12:00 PM
CRiSS-LAB, UDD, Las Condes, Chile.
Flavio Pinheiro
Discolab: Collaborative Discussions
Funded by CINS-DATA Spa. 2022.
Cristian Candia
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Loreto Bravo
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Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert
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Nicolás Hormazábal
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Roberto Correa
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Douglas Barraza
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Felipe Pimentel
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Alonso Astroza
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Matías Bull
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Francisca Araya
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
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SocialRec: Personalizing Educational Experience through Social Network-based Recommender Systems
Funded by Universidad del Desarrollo. 2022-2023.
Victor Landaeta
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Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
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Panel: El rol de un data scientist en la industria
Jun 23, 2022 12:00 AM
Universidad del Desarrollo, Las Condes, Chile
Cristian Candia
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Revving up Sales: Quantifying Automobile Relatedness and Predicting Next Purchase through Network Embeddings
Funded by Derco. 2021-2022.
Victor Navarro
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Alonso Astroza
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Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026
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Lixandria: A Platform for discovering your degree program
Funded by ANID, Fondef IDea I+D 2019, ID19I10413. 2019-2022.
Cristian Candia
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Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert
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Tamara Yaikin
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Cecilia Monge
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Javier Pulgar
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Miguel Guevara
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Joselina Davyt
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Melanie Oyarzún
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Flavio Pinheiro
Last updated on May 30, 2026
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