Tag Archives: predictive models

Google Prediction API gives you access to Google’s sophisticated machine learning algorithms to analyze a wide range of data and provide predictions for likely outcomes. — [FORECASTING TECH]

You can build a predictive model to find hidden patterns in financial data, or else. –> Google Prediction API – Machine learning for your business.

Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice), Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Andrew Gelman on forecasting and statistical models

Andrew Gelman visits Google’s Mountain View headquarters: The 2008 presidential election and state polls:

Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice), Science | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Forecasting the Economy: Art, Science or Both?

Professor Ryan Ratcliff takes an inside look at the art and science of forecasting.

Posted in Economics, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Unpacking the Wisdom of Crowds – Video by Scott Page

Scott Page presents three models for explaining the wisdom of crowds phenomenon, in which collections make better predictions than the individuals that comprise them. The first two models will be traditional models based on error cancellation and averaging. The third … Continue reading

Posted in Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Twitter has destroyed the usefulness of the predictive models because information flows faster than your algorithm.

How Twitter is confounding predictive modeling

Posted in Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment