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unusual facts about forecasting



Allen Pearson

Pearson was awarded the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal in 1974 for "...forecasting of severe local storms...which included the Super Outbreak of April 3–4, 1974".

Andrew D. Martin

As chronicled in Ian Ayres’ 2007 book Super Crunchers, Martin and Quinn created a statistical forecasting model of voting by United States Supreme Court justices which produced superior predictions of votes to predictions by legal experts.

Arun Raha

He has also received national awards for his financial forecasting from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and from the Wall Street Journal.

ATCF

Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System, software used for forecasting tropical cyclones within United States agencies

Balzac, Alberta

Balzac Billy, a Groundhog Day prognosticator, resides in the town, and is considered one of Canada's most prominent forecasting groundhogs (Shubenacadie Sam and Wiarton Willie being among the others).

Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

Also included is a "conscience-easing” event staged by the Boston Red Sox on a July 4th. Furthermore, accountability is affixed to well-known left and right "pro-war" writers, and David Brooks is the most criticized. Bacevich explains that attitudes such as shown by this set of writers has developed from a lack of suffering consequences because consistent forecasting inaccuracies are overlooked, "as long as those failures favor the use of military force".

Bruce Gilchrist

That same year, with a special interest in calculating methods for weather forecasting, and with funding arranged by the mathematician John von Neumann, he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey supported on United States Smith-Mundt and Fulbright programs.

David K. Hoadley

A meticulous record keeper, Hoadley taught himself meteorology and developed a pattern recognition based forecasting method, primarily using surface data.

Egain forecasting

As far as practical use of forecasting method is concerned, usually remote control forecasting receivers are used to send and receive data by means of GPRS or GSM network.

Elita Loresca

Starting on her first day at WSVN Miami in 2004, she began forecasting the 2004 hurricane season with Hurricane Frances.

Fiji Meteorological Service

Its specialty is forecasting tropical cyclones south of the equator to the 25th parallel south, and between the 160th meridian east and 120th meridian west longitude.

Forecasting complexity

Forecasting complexity is a measure of complexity put forward by the physicist Peter Grassberger.

Giulio Mazzarini

After helping the birth of the Trend Forecasting website WGSN, in 1999 he began his career as fashion and people photographer.

Greenpernt Oogle

Bullwinkle is kidnapped and taken to the island of New Greenpernt (whose king is from Brooklyn), which requires the services of his "weather-forecasting bunion" ever since their Oogle Bird was stolen.

Health forecasting

The main strand of the Health Forecasting project is forecasting the risk of exacerbation for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Institute for Economics and Forecasting

The Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, formerly the Institute for Economic Forecasting is a public institution for research in economics and forecasting.

James Canton

He serves on faculty and was the founding Co-Chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track for NASA and Google sponsored Singularity University interested in the convergence of accelerating technologies and future trends affecting grand challenges: population, energy, climate, security and health care.

KXEN Inc.

InfiniteInsight has been designed to allow the prediction of a behavior or a value, the forecast of a time series or the understanding of a group of individuals with similar behavior.

Milo Radulovich

He was hired by a private weather forecasting business, later went to work for the National Weather Service, and was chief meteorologist at Capital City Airport in Lansing, Michigan when he retired in 1994.

No. 521 Squadron RAF

The operations of the original Flights and later the Squadron was taking meteorological information for weather forecasting – previously provided by merchant shipping to the Met Office.

Ocean color

Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System utilizes ocean colour data in conjunction with meteorological data and field sampling to forecast the development and movement of harmful algal blooms (commonly referred to as "red tides") in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oleg Vyugin

From 1989 to 1993, he was Chief Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economic Forecasting.

Openda

Openda QX is a broad application covering business functions as diverse as CRM, ERP, ecommerce, customer support through actual order status and tracking, accounting, inventory management, warehouse management, purchase forecasting and scheduling, mobile invoicing, complete salesman notation, email marketing, document image processing and multiple document output formats.

Philip Klapwijk

After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis.

Reginald Sutcliffe

Later in the war he worked for Bomber Command, playing an important role in forecasting for air raids over Germany.

Richard Whitaker

In his second year at the Bureau of Meteorology, 1972, he developed and authored a manual for aviation forecasting in the state of New South Wales, still used today.

Robert C. Miller

Col. Robert C. Miller, USAF (b. 1920, d. 1998), was an American meteorologist, who pioneered severe convective storms forecasting and applied research, developing an empirical forecasting method, identifying many features associated with severe thunderstorms, a forecast checklist and manuals, and is known for the first official tornado forecast (1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes), and it verified, in 1948.

Robert D. Crane

In 1966, he left to become Director of Third World Studies at the first professional futures forecasting center, The Hudson Institute, led by Herman Kahn.

Symmetric mean absolute percentage error

Armstrong, J. S. (1985) Long-range Forecasting: From Crystal Ball to Computer, 2nd.

Volcano Live

They discover the future of volcanic forecasting and Iain travels to Pompeii to see the effects of Mount Vesuvius on the town.


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