Wharton AI & Analytics News Archives

How the Wharton AI & Analytics Accelerator Helped Penn Vet Turn Data Into Action

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When Penn Vet joined the Wharton AI & Analytics Accelerator in Fall 2025, the goal was clear but ambitious: make better use of years of client and hospital data to strengthen engagement, fundraising, and long-term strategy. For Chase Engel, Assistant Director of Annual Giving, and Sarah Trout, Associate Director of Advancement Services, the Accelerator offered a rare opportunity to step back from day-to-day operations and ask deeper, data-driven questions about how Penn Vet connects with its community.…Read More

How to Create Interactive Plots in R

In this part of the R workshop series, explore how to create dynamic data visualizations to better communicate clear insights from complex data and highlight key takeaways. Learn how to go from a static plot to a customizable interactive data visualization for your next big project. …Read More

Basic Text Analysis in R

In this part of the R workshop series, learn how to turn messy, unstructured text into an insightful, high-level overview using basic text analysis skills in R. You’ll walk through an hands-on example scenario from start to finish and learn about steps to explore and clean text data, how to conduct a few types of text-based analysis, and key details about interpreting and evaluating results of text analysis along the way.…Read More

Creating Data Dashboards in R

In this installment of the R workshop series, follow dashboard principles to create an interactive data dashboard in R using Quarto (Quarto, 2025). Data dashboards are useful in many different areas for overviewing complex data and displaying key trends and metrics.…Read More

Three Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in R

In this introductory workshop – the first in the R series – review some capabilities of R that you may not know about to uplevel your next project. First, review some basic terms in R and RStudio for some context. Then, next dive into three tasks you can do directly using R that might surprise you: scrape openly-accessible data, create sophisticated, reproducible reports, and build slide decks.…Read More

Building Interactive Dashboards with ChatGPT and Streamlit

In this final installment of our series on data analysis with ChatGPT, we’ll turn our Python analysis into a fully interactive web-based data dashboard using Streamlit. Streamlit is an open-source Python framework that makes it easy to build web-based data apps — no front-end experience required. …Read More

Visualizing Data with ChatGPT: Turning Analysis into Insight

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In this second part of our series on data analysis with ChatGPT, Brandon Krakowsky, Director of Data Science & Research at the Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative, explores how to create clear, insightful data visualizations. You’ll learn how to generate charts, refine them with filters, highlight trends, and extract insights — all within ChatGPT.…Read More

Exploring Data with ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Guide

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In this guide, Brandon Krakowsky, Director of Data Science & Research at the Wharton AI and Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) walks you through how to use ChatGPT to perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) on a retail dataset. You’ll learn how to upload CSV files, preview your data, summarize it, and even export analysis-ready code — all from within ChatGPT.…Read More

From Hype to Habit: How AI Is Actually Transforming Business

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AI is moving at a blistering pace, with new developments in models and their impact on the business world, it can be hard to keep up. Luckily, we have experts like Ritcha Ranjan, Senior Vice President of Product at Expedia Group and Advisory Board Member with the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative, to help us make sense of it all. In a recent interview with Eric Bradlow, Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton, the pair helped make sense of the current state of AI. Here are the key takeaways from their conversation.…Read More

WAIAI Welcomes New Appointments for 2025-2026 Academic Year

The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) is proud to welcome a distinguished group of Executives in Residence, Senior Fellows, and Visiting Scholars for the new academic year. These leaders bring diverse expertise spanning academia, industry, and public service, enriching WAIAI’s mission to advance AI and analytics in business, research, education, and society. Together, they will provide thought leadership, mentor students, collaborate on cutting-edge research, and strengthen the bridge between academic discovery and real-world application.…Read More