For the fourteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration and with financial support from SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The awards for the 2016-2017 year will be (2) $5,000 grants; [...]
Join your professional peers at the upcoming Foresight Practitioner Conference entitled “Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today’s Mistakes to Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs.” This 1.5-day event will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 5-6, 2016. Our invited speakers will share how they and others [...]
Lancaster Centre for Forecasting hosted the 19th IIF Workshop on Supply Chain Forecasting for Operations on 28th and 29th of June, jointly sponsored by the IIF and the software company SAS. The event attracted an international gathering of researchers and practitioners with [...]
Len Tashman, Editor, previews the Summer issue of Foresight Clarity and effectiveness of communication are key to success – so says a recent survey by the National Association of Business Economists (NABE), which reported that industry leaders and hiring managers considered communication [...]
Forecasting with R: A practical workshop | Nikolaos Kourentzes Together with Fotios Petropoulos, we gave a workshop on producing forecasts with R, at the International Symposium on Forecasting, 2016. You can find the material of the workshop here. The workshop notes assume knowledge of [...]
Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today's Mistakes to Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Join us for 1.5 days of top-notch professional development at the 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference, presented by Foresight: The International Journal of Forecasting and the Institute for Advanced Analytics on the campus of North [...]
Predictive Energy Analytics in the Big Data World Cairns, Australia, June 22-23, 2017 ISEA2017 (This post is syndicated from Hyndsight) This will be a great conference, and it is in a great location — Cairns, Australia, right by the Great Barrier [...]
The 18th IIF Workshop took place in Milano, Italy on May 12-13. The workshop was organized by Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the IIF on the topic of “Forecasting New Products and Services: Research and Applications.” The workshop’s goal was to stimulate forecasting research [...]
How did you become a forecaster? My path to forecasting was more like a maze than a straight line. In 2005, I joined North Carolina State University’s Electrical Engineering doctoral program. Halfway through my PhD study, in January 2008, I started working [...]
36th International Symposium on Forecasting, Santander, Spain The early registration deadline for ISF 2016 is quickly approaching! The deadline for discounted registration fees is 15 May 2016. Learn more about the ISF, the beautiful location of Santander, Spain, forecasting workshops and more [...]
