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César Hidalgo

César Augusto Hidalgo Ramaciotti (born December 22, 1979) is a Chilean born, Chilean-Spanish-American physicist, author, and entrepreneur. He is a tenured professor at the department of social and behavioral sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics and director of the Center for Collective Learning, a multidisciplinary research laboratory with offices at the Toulouse School of Economics and at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School. Hidalgo is known for pioneering the field of economic complexity by developing concepts and methods such as relatedness and the Economic Complexity Index. He is also known for the creation of public data infrastructure, as a co-creator of The Observatory of Economic Complexity, as well as several national scale economic data visualization platforms including Data USA, Data Mexico, and Data Saudi. Hidalgo works also on applied artificial intelligence and digital democracy. Before moving to France, to found the Center for Collective Learning, Hidalgo was a professor at MIT where he directed the Collective Learning group. He is also a founder and partner at Datawheel, a data visualization and distribution company.

Hidalgo works broadly in the field of collective intelligence. His contributions to the field includes the introduction of methods to measure economic complexity and relatedness, the study of people's perception of A.I., the study of collective memory, and the development of multiple data visualization platforms, including The Observatory of Economic Complexity, DataUSA, DataViva, DataMexico, DataAfrica, Pantheon, and Rankless, among others. He is the author of dozens of academic papers in complex systems, networks, and economic development, and has created applications of data science and artificial intelligence to understand urban perception and to explore the idea of augmented democracy.

Hidalgo has published four books. He co-authored The Atlas of Economic Complexity and How Humans Judge Machines together with teams of collegues. He is also the author of Why Information Grows, and The Infinite Alphabet, and the laws of knowledge.

His work was honored with the Bicentennial Medial from the Chilean Congressin 2011, the Lagrange Prize in 2018, and the Centennial Medal from the University of Concepcion in 2019. His data visualization and distribution platforms include three Webbys, one Information is Beautiful award, and one Indigo Design Award. Provided by Wikipedia