Sunil Wattal | Fox School of Business

Ride-sharing service shown to reduce drunk-driving deaths, according to Fox researchers

The inspiration for his co-authored research paper, Brad Greenwood said, materialized rather organically. “I was in the backseat of an UberX vehicle,” Greenwood said, “and I wrote myself a cell phone note: ‘Call Sunil about writing an Uber paper.’” According to research by Greenwood and Sunil Wattal, professors at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, […]

Fox School welcomes prestigious guests, speakers for NSF-funded big data workshop

Google “big data,” and the first search result returns the word, “dangerous.” The irony of using a big data factory to discover the risks of its own data was not lost on researchers and experts attending the Privacy in an Era of Big Data workshop, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted by […]

Big Data Institute has big ambitions for Year 2

The bar graph is dead. It’s a bygone relic of an era intimidated by 1.28 billion Facebook members and 3 billion computer users globally. These numbers are not as daunting as they once were; rather, they are now the tools used to determine anything from favorite food to political preference. This is big data, the […]

National Science Foundation Grant Awarded to Fox for Big Data Privacy

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Temple University’s Fox School of Business with a $50,000 grant, with which the School will fund a workshop workshop is to bring together experts in the domain of big data and privacy to develop a research agenda for better understanding and promoting privacy in an era of big data. […]