We live in a data-laden world. From the smartphone in your pocket and the satellites flying overhead to the demographics of a city and global banking transactions, data production is a constant fount. Assistant Professor of Statistics Xiao Hui Tai's research lives at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences.
New research using large-scale online experiments suggests that rewarding people to contribute to a virtual public good, such as a simulated online rating for a ferry system, increased the accuracy of the ratings and improved the overall quality of that resource.
