Forecasting Impact is a new initiative sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters. The podcast aims to disseminate the science and practice of forecasting, grow the forecasting community, and foster collaboration between academia and industry. Forecasting Impact will bring prominent academics and [...]
Forecasting at Scale is Foresight's latest guidebook, which explores the demands on forecasting systems in large, complex organizations. It presents a case study of how one organization—the Target Corporation—committed to fulfilling these demands by providing nearly one billion forecasts per week to [...]
For the seventeenth 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. Please join in congratulating the winners for 2020! Hussain Syed [...]
The M competitions have been instrumental in advancing the theory and practice of forecasting, with the last one, the M5 competition ending on June 30 of this year. It included two separate challenges the Accuracy and the Uncertainty tracks to distinguish and [...]
We are pleased to announce a new award for the best papers published in the International Journal of Forecasting, special issues, devoted to the M Forecasting competitions. The two, best two paper awards are: Best M paper award — US$4000 and [...]
A generous donation from Professor Tao Hong has funded this award for papers on energy forecasting published in the International Journal of Forecasting. The award was first given in 2016 for papers published within 2013–2014. The award decision for 2020, hence covering the period [...]
[latexpage] Logan C. Brooks*,1, Evan L. Ray*,2, Jacob Bien3, Johannes Bracher4, Aaron Rumack1, Ryan J. Tibshirani†,1, Nicholas G. Reich†,2 1 Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University 2 School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst 3 Department of [...]
Guest Editors: George Athanasopoulosa, Rob J Hyndmana, Anastasios Panagiotelisb and Nikolaos Kourentzesc a Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Australia; b Discipline of Business Analytics, University of Sydney, Australia; c Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab, Skövde University, Sweden. Organisations make multiple [...]
The M competitions have been instrumental in advancing the theory and practice of forecasting, with the last one, the M5 ending in June 30 of this year. It included two separate challenges the Accuracy and the Uncertainty tracks to distinguish and emphasize [...]
How did you become a forecaster? At some stage of my work in Microsoft, following one of the business reorganizations that happen regularly at large companies, I found myself in a rather nascent Azure organization that started to move from manual capacity [...]
