According to McKinsey, organizations that leverage the behavioral insights that their data reveals about customers outperform peers by 85 percent in sales growth and over 25 percent in gross margin.…Read More
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
A personal experience with the tedium and bureaucracy of health care stands as a metaphor for John Whang, who is leading a new research study by Johnson & Johnson into early detection of a potentially deadly heart condition known as atrial fibrillation.…Read More
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
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
AI and Analytics for Business conference speaker discusses her career in data, the importance of clear communication, and time spent preparing for sky-high climbs.…Read More
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced the establishment of Analytics at Wharton, uniting the School’s five trail-blazing teaching, research, and industry engagement programs.…Read More
A panel of private equity GPs and LPs, speaking at a AIAB forum in San Francisco, addressed one of the overlooked challenges for sponsors trying to incorporate data science into their investment process.…Read More
Companies today have vast amounts of data at their fingertips, but finding skilled workers who can analyze it is proving hard.…Read More
(Outlet: Fast Company) Kartik Hosanagar, Wharton Human-AI Research faculty co-director, authors a piece on Michael Kearns, a prominent machine learning researcher, who has emphasized the need for an “algorithmic bill of rights” to address the bias in algorithms used in socially sensitive applications.…Read More
