MacroFor : the Macroeconomic Forecasting section of the IIF This new section, in line with the IIF's newly created sections, focusses on macroeconomic forecasting, comprising of GDP forecasting, inflation forecasting, macroeconomic nowcasting with large data sets, business cycles analysis, survey expectations, density forecasting, [...]
This 55th issue of Foresight opens with an article from Phillip Yelland, Zeynep Erkin Baz, and David Serafini of the Data Science/AI team at Target: Forecasting at Scale: The Architecture of a Modern Retail Forecasting System. The challenge of scale at Target [...]
The Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasting has appointed Prof. Pierre Pinson as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting starting October 2019. Pierre is Professor of Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and has research interests in [...]
As a Forecasting and Machine Learning Specialist on the SAS Forecasting R&D team, you will help create innovative software to apply cutting-edge statistical methods to automated enterprise-scale business forecasting processes. You will: Work closely in a team-oriented environment with experts in computing and forecasting [...]
Artificial Intelligence for Forecasting Can artificial intelligence augment and amplify our forecasting efforts? Will AI impact our forecasting roles and processes? Does AI deliver the automation and forecast accuracy we've been pursuing? These are the sorts of questions to be addressed [...]
Aris, Pam and George ISF 2019 - General Chair Overview George Athanasopoulos, General Chair Aris Syntetos, Program Chair The 39th International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF2019) was a great success. ISF 2019 took place at Makedonia Palace Hotel in Thessaloniki, Greece, [...]
22nd Dynamic Econometrics Conference 9-10 September 2019 | Nuffield College, University of Oxford The 22nd Dynamic Econometrics Conference provides a forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experience within the fields of computational and financial econometrics, empirical economics, [...]
For the sixteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on improving forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for this year will be (2) $10,000 grants. The deadline date for applications is [...]
This 54th edition of Foresight features an important new take on the role of judgment in the forecasting process. Normally, we see judgment applied to adjust a statistical forecast or supply a forecast directly. But here Fotios Petropoulos proposes a major role for judgment in the [...]
The IIF Board of Directors presented the award of IIF Research Fellow to Antonio Garcia-Ferrer, Professor of Econometrics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. The award was presented at the International Symposium on Forecasting [...]