Center for Collective Learning

at Corvinus University of Budapest and in Toulouse, France

About CCL

The Center for Collective Learning (CCL) studies how knowledge moves, grows, and decays, from teams to nations, and from the past to the future.

We are a multidisciplinary team of researchers based in Toulouse, France, and at the Corvinus University of Budapest.

Our research informs sustainable economic development strategies, and has led to the creation of dozens of public data observatories. We are pioneers in economic complexity methods, which involve the application of machine learning techniques to questions of economic development.

CCL is supported by a European Research Executive Agency (ERA) Chair, and two Horizon consortia projects: the European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability (ELIAS), and the Observatory for the Sea.

Featured project: Rankless

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Conference on Economic Complexity (CEC)
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Latest Publications

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Large language models and the Danish labour market.O. Teutloff, J. Einsiedler, F. Søndergaard Møller (2024) (Copy)

Understanding Political Divisiveness Using Online Participation Data from The 2022 French and Brazilian Presidential Elections. C. Navarrete, M. Macedo, J. Zhang, & C. A. Hidalgo (2023) (Copy)

The Role of Immigrants, Emigrants and Locals in The Historical Formation of European Knowledge Agglomerations. P. Koch, V. Stojkoski & C. A. Hidalgo. (2023) (Copy)

Why people judge humans differently from machines: The role of perceived agency and experience. J. Zhang, J. Conway, C. A. Hidalgo (2023) (Copy)

The policy implications of economic complexity. C.A. Hidalgo, Research Policy (2023) (Copy)

Flagship Collaborations

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC)

The Observatory of Economic Complexity is a leading international trade data distribution platform. It was begotten at MIT’s Collective Learning group in 2011, and after being open-sourced, it was professionalized at Datawheel (a company that spun out of the CCL in 2013). Today the OEC has dozens of proprietary data pipelines and receives 800k+ monthly users. The CCL is an active partner and collaborator with the OEC. The OEC is updated monthly and has been used by over 5,000 academic publications according to Google Scholar.

Pantheon

Pantheon is an observatory of human collective memory. It contains structured data on the biographies of more than 80k notable individuals. Pantheon was created at MIT’s Collective Learning in 2013. Its current development is now performed by Datawheel. The Center for Collective Learning continues to participate in the Pantheon project by performing academic research on collective memory and by exploring the design of new features that could enhance our understanding of human collective memory.

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