The competitions range from predicting the progression of HIV to forecasting travel times on Autralian freeways.
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When it comes to forecasting models, the impact of a euro break-up simply "will not compute".
Even a cursory glance at Exhibit 4 reveals that economists are simply useless when it comes to forecasting.
There are limits to what monetary policy can accomplish and to forecasting random variables like interest rates and asset prices.
According to forecasting group, the Ernst and Young Item Club, inflation and subdued pay rises will leave Britons with less cash to spend.
If amateur analysts and unaffiliated independent analysts can come close to forecasting AAPL quarterly results, and they do this nearly all the time, then anyone else can learn and start to make sense of this.
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To help save lives, JCOMM is looking for ways to improve weather and ocean observations for the coastal zones of the developing world, to increase local forecasting capability and to improve warning systems.
Speaking before the students of the Singularity University Executive Program in October, Saffo enumerated seven keys to effective forecasting.
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This will allow plans to be speeded up and extended and for flood warning and forecasting to be improved.
Once in the pipeline, a prospect is either on track to become a sale or a forecasting mistake to be removed.
Ryanair's boss Michael O'Leary said though that he hoped to see a recovery this year, forecasting profits to "at least double" thanks to anticipated lower fuel costs.
Rackspace has to commit to expansion, forecasting demand over two years in advance.
Another factor to consider in forecasting lumber prices is the dollar, which has shown strength in the midst of the European debt crisis.
This year, they dropped the forecasting to focus on current issues.
The findings are based on studies that took place during the 1996 Olympics, when Atlanta was equipped with the latest technology to do spot forecasting for the Games.
Is the appropriate response to accept that it was mere bad luck to run into such a rare event or to get new forecasting models that assume more storms in future?
All of the aforementioned organizations play a vital role ranging from flood forecasting to flood management and knowledge platform will enhance their inter-organizational coordination framework while sharing precipitation, stage, and discharge data in near real-time.
To put this complexity in perspective, Edmund Teller once estimated that the costs of building the data and computing infrastructure needed to extend weather forecasting abilities by about two weeks ran well into the trillions of dollars.
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Toyota expects little moderation in the months to come and is now forecasting the yen will reach 86 yen to the dollar, compared to an earlier projection of 85 to 1.
The best way to see whether a fire-forecasting system works or not is to simulate a fire whose outcome is already known, and see whether the model correctly predicts what happened.
The two imagined including a crop-forecasting tool to provide as much clarity as possible.
Some people believe the Mayan Calendar is forecasting Armageddon to start on December 21, 2012.
The National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Isaac to make landfall with peak winds of 105 MPH.
Toyota has assumed a conversion rate of 1 USD to 80 yen while forecasting its fiscal 2013 guidance.
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The exploration of space has led to advances in weather forecasting, in communications, in computing, search and rescue technology, robotics and electronics.
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Wesbury has used this as a forecasting tool to arguably inadequate effect.
HP's divisions is already testing the forecasting methodology to predict its revenue.
More and more utilities are tapping the capabilities of advanced metering technologies to enhance operations, forecasting, outage management, program evaluation and other functions.
This workshop will continue to develop one Ocean Forecasting System with an initial focus on the South East Asian Waters and adjacent areas.
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Now efforts are made to develop operational integrated forecasting and warning systems, considering various hazards in coastal zones altogether that cause coastal inundation.
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