How Art, Math, and Engineering Propel Visual Learning

In an interview with t-art Magazine, Robert Ghrist discusses his many passion projects, including his free Calculus Blue video series, with the mission to make math more accessible to people around the world.

Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mathematics

Ubiquity of Data

What Will It Take to Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine?

Gad Allon speaks with Wharton Business Daily on SirusXM about the logistical challenges involved in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

The government’s hidden superpower: ‘Unrules’

The federal government's power to lift or loosen regulatory obligations can be wielded for good or ill, Cary Coglianese writes in his Fortune commentary, adding: "Far too much of that power is currently wielded in the dark."

Law
Political Science

Ubiquity of Data

Job Ads for AI Could Soon Look Like This. Are You Ready?

Jason Moore's recent Extreme Tech op-ed looks at a new computer science discipline called automated machine learning, or AutoML, and how it could potentially open up a whole new field of lucrative and fulfilling work.

Biomedical Informatics

Ubiquity of Data

Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed

In a revised and updated edition of For the Win: The Power of Gamification and Game Thinking in Business, Education, Government, and Social Impact, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter argue that applying the lessons of gamification could change your business, the way you learn or teach, and even your life.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Ubiquity of Data

How Data Science Can Help Marketers Manage Unprecedented Disruption

Recently, Barbara Kahn, executive director of MSI and Wharton Marketing Professor, sat down with Kartik Hosanagar and Raghuram Iyengar. They discussed how AI and analytics can be used for governance and risk mitigation, and how algorithms can be used to manage disruption in unpredictable times.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

The role of data in a world reshaped by COVID-19

Experts across Penn, including Warren Center affiliates Duncan Watts, Maria Cuellar, Shane Jensen, and Jason Moore, share their insights on how data and data science affect their fields in the context of an ongoing pandemic.

Biomedical Informatics
Communication
Computer and Information Science
Criminology
Operations Information and Decisions
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

Outside Their Bubbles

The Undergraduate Data Science Hangout, organized by Bhuvnesh Jain, connects students and faculty across seemingly disparate disciplines. This summer, researchers from 10 departments covered 22 topics ranging from virus tracking to electoral politics to the universe’s expansion.

Physics and Astronomy
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

New study by Prof. Coglianese shows that ‘unrules’ are ubiquitous in U.S. regulatory system and require greater oversight

In the recently released paper “Unrules,” Cary Coglianese present his findings from the “first systematic empirical investigation of the hidden world of unrules”: evidence that challenges the widespread perception of the U.S. regulatory system as inflexible and burdensome.

Law

Ubiquity of Data

Facebook Keeps Data Secret, Letting Conservative Bias Claims Persist

Duncan Watts was quoted in this recent NPR article exploring Republicans claims that Facebook is biased. The consensus: There is no statistical evidence to support the argument that Facebook does not give conservative views a fair shake.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

News

How Art, Math, and Engineering Propel Visual Learning

What Will It Take to Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine?

The government’s hidden superpower: ‘Unrules’

Job Ads for AI Could Soon Look Like This. Are You Ready?

Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed

How Data Science Can Help Marketers Manage Unprecedented Disruption

The role of data in a world reshaped by COVID-19

Outside Their Bubbles

New study by Prof. Coglianese shows that ‘unrules’ are ubiquitous in U.S. regulatory system and require greater oversight

Facebook Keeps Data Secret, Letting Conservative Bias Claims Persist