Algorithmic Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

its "Zestimates," a proprietary algorithm that generates estimates of home values. But, like Expedia, Zillow's entire culture is based on data and analysis—not surprisingly, since the company was... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

employing an engineering team to create a web application that applies natural language processing, machine learning, big data, and data visualization algorithms to make conflicts with trademarked names... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing the nature of firms, how they... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

01 Sep 2018
News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

computer to monitor typing patterns. (Data on what is typed is not recorded.) Then, each time the person uses that computer, information is uploaded to NeuraMetrix, where it is analyzed for inconsistencies. Because the amount of data... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

platform. We merge online with offline data, adding exogenous factors, like the weather, to identify targeting opportunities based on customer behavior." BulkWhiz is now raising Series A funding for three objectives: develop AI technology to "create regionally relevant... View Details

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial... View Details

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

IBISWorld.com. Piskorski decided to home in on OKCupid, a general-interest dating site that boasts more than 3 million members. The site allows all of its users to browse each other's profiles, but uses comprehensive quizzes and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

01 Dec 2019
News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

sure signs of stability, and Lidya’s in-house, Portugal-based engineering team developed an algorithm that can quickly assess more than 100 data points. “We don’t do consumer loans. We’re not the best for... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Web

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview... View Details

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

in County Business Patterns (CBP). An algorithm using contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting for lagged CBP data, in a testing sample not used to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is strategic, too, analyzing View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2016
News

The Western Front

things to bring to the table,” says Hendrickson. “If we can present them with a data set and algorithms that they just can’t get anywhere else, that’s interesting to them.” Entrepreneurs are also interested... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

out the softer skills required for effective management, so I wanted to balance that by using the summer to hone my engineering skillset. I spent the summer building machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms that serve as a... View Details

Keywords: Technology

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

tasks and finding the appropriate platforms for execution. In that sense, the tasks were defined for data scientists and algorithm developers who do not necessarily have that domain knowledge, but possess... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

“What happens when the algorithms make a mistake on someone’s credit score, and because of that they don’t get a loan? How do you protect against bias? How do you regulate data access and ownership? These... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details

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