Preview of the Winter 2017 issue of Foresight Winter scene from Len's office in Colorado Foresight begins the new year with our 44th issue since the journal began publishing in 2005, and in this Winter 2017 collection we’re showcasing a broad range [...]
(Syndicated from Hyndsight) Professor Tao Hong has generously funded a new prize for the best IJF paper on energy forecasting, to be awarded every two years. The first award will be for papers published in the International Journal of Forecasting during the [...]
How can we effectively aggregate disparate pieces of information that are spread among many different individuals? Prediction markets, which are essentially speculative markets created or employed for the purpose of aggregating information and making predictions, are a means of addressing this issue. [...]
How did you become a forecaster? It is a little fraudulent for me to claim that I am a forecaster! When asked to give an explicit forecast, the one thing I have learnt from my research is that forecasting is a perilous [...]
The rapid increase in the availability of data on sports has stimulated interest in in a number of fields that put forecasting models at the heart of what they do. For example, in sports analytics, forecasting models are used as central components [...]
(Cross-posted from Hyndsight) We are currently calling for invited session proposals for the ISF to be held in Cairns, Australia, in June 2017. An invited session consists of 3 or 4 talks around a specific forecasting theme. You are allowed to be [...]
We are pleased to announce the IIF sponsored workshops for 2017: ISEA 2017: Predictive Energy Analytics in the Big Data World || Cairns, Australia, June 22-23, 2017 Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies || Washington, DC, April 27-28, 2017 Tools and Analytical Techniques in Forecasting [...]
Mike Gilliland, Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting software, has written a 12 part blog series on Changing the paradigm for business forecasting. Last week Mike delivered the opening keynote at the Foresight Practitioner Conference -- a unique event with a theme of "Worst [...]
Note from the Editor With our 43rd issue, Foresight welcomes new Associate Editor Chris Gray, who joins longtime Associate Editor Stephan Kolassa as the main guardians of quality assurance in Foresight publications. Chris is President of Gray Research, a founder of Partners for Excellence [...]
The 37th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting will be held in Cairns, Australia, from 25-28 June 2017. The ISF organizing committee will offer workshops on Sunday, 25 June, before the main conference. We are currently calling for workshop proposals on topics in the field [...]
