Datathon Challenge: How to Boost Sales for a Global Retailer

Raghu Iyengar, one of the judges for a recent Wharton virtual Datathon, discussed the increasing importance of data analytics in retail, especially given the challenges the industry has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Dani Bassett, Jordan Dworkin, and Perry Zurn

Rooting Out Systemic Bias in Neuroscience Publishing

An interdisciplinary research team has found statistical evidence of women being under-cited in academic literature. They are now leading efforts to analyze systemic racial bias in neuroscience citations, and have suggestions for combatting it.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

What Have Marketers Learned During the Pandemic and What Role Can Analytics Play in Forecasting the ‘Next Normal’

Eric T. Bradlow reflects on the evolving challenges leaders and organizations face during the pandemic, what the future may hold for business and sports through the lens of analytics, and the role analytics can play in shaping decisions.

Education
Marketing
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

Female professional using virtual assistant at desk

3 Strategies for the Future of Voice-Enabled AI

Raghu Iyengar weighs in on what's ahead for this rapidly-growing technology in his recent Wharton Magazine op-ed.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Sandra González-Bailón Named 2020-21 Penn Fellow

The Penn Fellows program provides leadership development to outstanding, midcareer Penn faculty members, selected from a pool of excellent candidates nominated by Penn’s deans, department chairs, and Faculty Senate leaders. Professor Sandra González-Bailón is among the 2020-21 cohort.

Communication

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Rakesh Vohra Wins SIGecom Test of Time Award

Warren Center Director Rakesh Vohra received the 2020 SIGecom Test of Time Award. Vohra’s paper, “Calibrated Learning and Correlated Equilibrium,” originally published in 1997, has served as an essential contribution to the literature on game theory.

Economics
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Resilience in Networked Systems

What the 1968 Kerner Commission can teach us

Criminologist and statistician Richard Berk, who worked on the report as a graduate student, explains the systemic racism and poverty found to underlie violent unrest in the 1960s and where COVID-19 and the economy fit today.

Criminology
Statistics

Social Norms for Algorithms

Dani Bassett receives OHBM 2020 Early Career Investigator Award

Each year, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping recognizes the outstanding contributions of members in the field of human brain imaging. Dani Bassett has received their 2020 Early Career Investigator Award.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

A unique recession amidst a global pandemic

The U.S. economy officially entered a recession in February as the viral pandemic started its sweep across the nation. Francis Diebold shares why this one is unprecedented, and what to expect in the coming months.

Economics
Finance
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

Everything you’ve read about contact tracing apps is wrong

Lyle Ungar addresses the effectiveness of contact tracing apps in his recent Medium op-ed. "Technology can reduce the cost of contact tracing, but in the end, contact tracing is not an app, but a combined effort between technology, human tracers, and the general population," he writes.

Computer and Information Science

Consensus and Contagion in Society

News

Datathon Challenge: How to Boost Sales for a Global Retailer

Rooting Out Systemic Bias in Neuroscience Publishing

What Have Marketers Learned During the Pandemic and What Role Can Analytics Play in Forecasting the ‘Next Normal’

3 Strategies for the Future of Voice-Enabled AI

Sandra González-Bailón Named 2020-21 Penn Fellow

Rakesh Vohra Wins SIGecom Test of Time Award

What the 1968 Kerner Commission can teach us

Dani Bassett receives OHBM 2020 Early Career Investigator Award

A unique recession amidst a global pandemic

Everything you’ve read about contact tracing apps is wrong