Does more money correlate with greater happiness?

Reconciling previously contradictory results, researchers from Penn and Princeton including Warren Center affiliate Matthew Killingsworth find a steady association between larger incomes and greater happiness for most people but a rise and plateau for an unhappy minority.

People Analytics

Ubiquity of Data

Real or Fake Text? We Can Learn to Spot the Difference

As chatbots such as ChatGPT continue to spread into more facets of our lives, a team of researchers led by Chris Callison-Burch demonstrate that people can learn to spot the difference between machine-generated and human-written text.

Computer and Information Science

Ubiquity of Data

The Brewing Backlash Over Rewards Programs

Customers are unhappy when their favorite retailers make it harder to earn rewards, as Starbucks, Dunkin’ and Best Buy have recently done. But firms have to walk a fine line between customer loyalty and profits, says Raghu Iyengar.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Edgar Dobriban awarded 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Edgar Dobriban for being named a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow! Awarded this year to 126 early-career scientists, the Sloan Research Fellowships are among the most competitive awards available to researchers.

Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

How Analytics Can Boost Competitiveness in Sports

Data and analytics are increasingly being used to help maximize fan experiences and for team owners to determine the value of players, but also to enhance player safety. Eric Bradlow and FanDuel CEO Amy Howe discuss how analytics can benefit teams, players, and customers while ensuring the necessary data protections.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

How species partnerships evolve

Symbiotic relationships are everywhere in nature. In the journal Evolution, Erol Akçay and co-authors consider the evolutionary dynamics that govern how two forms of specialization—cooperative or antagonistic—as well as generalist symbioses arise, persist, or wane in a model framework using game theory.

Biology

Ubiquity of Data

Through the lens: A digital depiction of dyslexia

Artist-in-residence and visiting scholar Rebecca Kamen has blended AI and art to produce animated illustrations representing how a dyslexic brain interprets information, inspired by network visualizations from Dani Bassett and Ph.D. candidate Dale Zhou.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

ASSET Center Inaugural Seed Grants Will Fund Trustworthy AI Research in Healthcare

Penn Engineering’s newly established ASSET Center aims to make AI-enabled systems more “safe, explainable and trustworthy” by studying the fundamentals of the artificial neural networks that organize and interpret data to solve problems. The center will be funding projects from Dani Bassett, Lyle Ungar, and Edgar Dobriban.

Bioengineering
Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

Turning Ugly Duckling Customers Into Beautiful Swans

Peter Fader shares insights about using retail data, boosting customer lifetime value, and his latest book on “The Customer-Base Audit: The First Step on the Journey to Customer Centricity” in this interview with Women's Wear Daily.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

The Physics of Us

“We’re using physics principles to understand life and living matter,” says Eleni Katifori, who studies vasculature in plants and animals. “But we are also using living matter as an inspiration to discover new physics, for asking the right questions or new questions.”

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

News

Does more money correlate with greater happiness?

Real or Fake Text? We Can Learn to Spot the Difference

The Brewing Backlash Over Rewards Programs

Edgar Dobriban awarded 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship

How Analytics Can Boost Competitiveness in Sports

How species partnerships evolve

Through the lens: A digital depiction of dyslexia

ASSET Center Inaugural Seed Grants Will Fund Trustworthy AI Research in Healthcare

Turning Ugly Duckling Customers Into Beautiful Swans

The Physics of Us