Professors Rob Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos together with their co-authors Azul Garza, Cristian Challu and Max Mergenthaler from Nixtla and Kin G Olivares from Amazon, are excited to announce the launch of Forecasting: Principles and Practice, the Pythonic Way, a long-awaited resource that brings the trusted content of https://otexts.com/fpp3/ into the Python ecosystem. Whether you’re teaching, learning, or [...]
At the end of the ISF in Dijon, George Athanasopoulos stepped down from his role as President of the IIF. George has played such a critical role in the leadership and development of the IIF, that it is hard to imagine the [...]
The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce Rob Hyndman, Professor at Monash University with the title of IIF Fellow, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. Please join us in congratulating Rob! Rob J Hyndman FAA FASSA is [...]
We are delighted to announce the winners of the two M-International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) paper awards for the special issue on the M4-competition (2020): Best M paper award (US$4000 and an engraved plaque) Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. & Robert L. Winkler [...]
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 [...]
We are pleased to announce Virtual ISF 2020--Rio de Janeiro with LIVE keynote lectures, practitioner talks, panel-discussion, workshops, contributed sessions, forecasting summer school and much more. Important 2020 dates Abstract and invited session submission deadline: 31 July Abstract decision notification: 14 August [...]
Professor Tao Hong has generously funded a new research award for the best International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) paper on energy forecasting, to be awarded every two years. The award for 2016 is for papers published within 2013-2014. Next year we will award a paper [...]
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 [...]