Blog on: World Cup Forecasting Challenge For Quants

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Slashdot World Cup Forecasting Challenge For Quants – http://science.slashdot.org/story… 2 hours ago from Slashdot – Comment – Like databuff writes “As a break from projecting the strength of subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and other obscure financial instruments, quantitative analysts at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS and Danske Bank have modeled the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Now Kaggle has set up a forecasting competition, allowing statisticians to go head-to-head with these corporate giants. The challenge is to predict how far each country will progress in the tournament.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. – simsbot