Is Streaming the Future of TV Programming?

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Comcast is the latest company to jump into the streaming world with the launch of NBC’s new Peacock streaming service, which will be available in July 2020. Faculty Director of the AI and Analytics for Business Raghu Iyengar joins Dan Loney to talk about this complex market, the challenges that come with continually creating fresh, new content, and the future of TV programming.Read More

Artificial Intelligence in Human Resources Management: Challenges and a Path Forward

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The researchers identify four challenges in using data science for human resource (HR) management tasks: the complexity of HR phenomena, constraints imposed by small data sets, fairness, ethical, and legal constraints, and possible adverse employee reactions to management decisions via data-based algorithms. They propose practical responses to these challenges that would be economically efficient and socially appropriate.Read More

Barnes Continues Partnership with Wharton

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AI and Analytics for Business (AIAB) is pleased to announce that the Barnes Foundation has signed on for another data analytics project with The Wharton School. This fall they will partner with the Wharton Analytics Fellows (WAF) to gain deeper insights into the relationship between visitorship and geographic distribution.Read More

Wharton Beefs Up its Data Analytics Offerings After a $15 Million Donation

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11 years ago, the University of Pennsylvania’s The Wharton School was among the pioneers highlighting the emergence of big data and the need for future leaders to understand data analytics. At the time, it established a center to study the sector. While Wharton’s efforts in this area of study was already quite active, it recently received a major boost thanks to an anonymous $15 million gift.Read More

How Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation Is Leveraging Analytics

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The Barnes Foundation houses one of the finest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist and early modernist paintings in the world. It is also an institution geared towards education in the fine arts and horticulture. When the museum moved locations from the suburbs of Philadelphia to downtown Center City in 2012, its membership jumped from around 400 to 20,000 while the number of annual visitors more than tripled.Read More