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Tag Archives: Yahoo!
Once again, Yahoo!’s David Rothschild forgets to cite InTrade and BetFair as probability sources. — [OOPS]
Here. Previously.
Knowns and unknowns of the 2012 presidential elections — [LINK]
“We gather information from a variety of sources (some of which are themselves information aggregators), including prediction markets, polls, web search, social activity, games, and historical precedent, and combine it together to produce a Consensus Prediction that is as unbiased, … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Politics, Prediction Journalism, Resources - References
Tagged 2012 presidential elections, blogs, certainty, David Pennock, David Rothschild, democrats, Internet sites, Politics, Prediction Journalism, probabilities, references, republicans, resources, sites, The Signal, uncertainty, US politics, Yahoo!, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Research
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Yahoo’s David Rothschild scraps market info from InTrade (and BetFair?), does not cite them, and does not link to them. — [UPDATED]
David Pennock’s little protégé should receive a crash course about citing sources. C’est minable. UPDATE: David Rothschild e-mails me to say he forgot to link to InTrade and BetFair in that story, at publication time, but he added the links … Continue reading
PREDICTALOT IS THE LARGEST PREDICTION EXCHANGE CREATED BY NUMBER OF OUTCOMES (9.2 QUINTILLION). — [LINK]
http://predictalot.yahoo.com/ Predictalot on FaceBook. David Pennock: I believe it’s the largest prediction market created by number of outcomes (9.2 quintillion). We’re approximating a #P-hard problem to get the odds. More here. I believe v0.3 is faster and easier to use … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Designs, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Mechanism Designs
Tagged bets, Betting, betting exchanges, betting markets, David Pennock, derivative exchanges, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, event derivatives, exchanges, FaceBook, futures exchanges, March Madness, play-money betting markets, play-money prediction markets, Predictalot, prediction exchanges, prediction markets, Yahoo!
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Yahoo! Finance vertical search
Yahoo! Finance vertical search
The main advantage of web search as a prediction tool may have less to do with its superiority over other methods than with its generality, low cost, and real-time nature.
What Can Search Predict?
The Yahoo!–MicroSoft deal
Yahoo! = AOL