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Muma College of Business Profs, Grad Students Provide Research for the State of the Region

By Keith Morelli

Dean Moez Limayem speaking from podium

TAMPA (December 12, 2018) -- An exhaustive survey of local tweets over the past two months shows people just love downtown Tampa, but hate the traffic getting there. The findings also included facts such as most of the people in the region work in Hillsborough County, but live elsewhere and that interest in ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏspikes each fall, maybe because of football or maybe because fall is the beginning of the academic year.

The goal of the over-arching research project is to rank the Tampa Bay region in relation to 19 other metropolitan areas around the nation. It was conducted by researchers with the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏMuma College of Business’s Center for Analytics and Creativity and the Tampa Bay Partnership the results of which were presented at a luncheon at ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏon Wednesday.

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