Forecasting posts posts
National Geographic TV Technological changes are drastically improving weather forecasting.
108 months ago
The Economist Our forecasting model suggests that Sergio García is a slight favourite to win his first ever major—and that Jordan Spieth has an 11% chance of victory, rather than the 20% implied by betting markets
Sergio García is poised to end his curse
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Our statistical forecasting model offers predictions for the 2017 Masters
110 months ago
The Economist Our golf forecasting model is based on every hole score in majors since 2001, and in all tournaments since 2006. Its projections differ from betting markets
Who to back in the Masters
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Our statistical forecasting model offers predictions for the 2017 Masters
110 months ago
Yahoo Finance Six weeks before the election, this guy wrote an article titled “The Market Is Forecasting a Donald Trump Victory
Why the market was forecasting a Trump victory all along
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He got a lot of hate mail.
115 months ago
Forbes We must move beyond weather forecasting to forecasting the impacts of weather and where possible, identifying actions to mitigate losses. IBM
IBMVoice: Moving From Weather Forecasting To Problem Solving As Hurricane Season Begins
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The Atlantic Hurricane Season begins June 1. This year could be the most active in four years, with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes and three major hurricanes forecast during the coming season, according to The Weather Company, an IBM Business.
121 months ago
Los Angeles Times Trump isn't just disrupting the Republican Party. He's disrupting political science too.
Election forecasting in the age of Trump
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Ray Fair of Yale University says that if his election forecasting model is correct, the Republican nominee is likely to win the presidency by a convincing margin.
121 months ago
Reuters Two of the world's largest technology firms, IBM and Microsoft, are vying to tap the nascent, fast-growing market for forecasting air quality in the world's top carbon emitters. Find out how: http://reut.rs/1MEGJsl
126 months ago
The Economist From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, executives are asking how good their forecasting really is
Will 2016 be the year of of rigorous forecasting?
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Picture a sprawling organisation with an annual budget of $50 billion. As in all organisations, its executives make decisions based on what they think will happen in the future-forecasts, in other words-but forecasting is particularly important for t Read more ... his organisation, because much of its money is spent generating forecasts which it shares with others. This is America's intelligence community, consisting of 17 government agencies. One might assume, given its vast resources and experience, that its forecasts are as accurate as humanly possible.
127 months ago
TIME Al Roker describes the tragic history of early weather forecasting.
130 months ago
TIME How weather forecasting was invented
Al Roker: The Tragic History of Early Weather Forecasting
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Read an exclusive excerpt from Al Roker's upcoming book
130 months ago