Science 2.0: Can Large-Scale Analytics Predict Major Societal Events?

Can big data analytics predict population-level societal events such as civil unrest or disease outbreaks?That is the subject of a two-year analysis of the Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) system. The usefulness of this predictive artificial intelligence system for population-level events could be important. If existing models, which successfully predict the past, were good enough no one would ever lose money in the stock market. read more

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