About the Authors

Philip Salesses

Affiliation The MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katja Schechtner

Affiliations The MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Mobility Department, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

César A. Hidalgo

hidalgo@mit.edu

Affiliations The MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile

Competing Interests

César A Hidalgo is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAH. Performed the experiments: PS. Analyzed the data: CAH PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAH PS KS. Wrote the paper: CAH KS PS. Original Idea: CAH.