The day started at 6 a.m. as hundreds of men and women gathered to receive their daily marching orders and to hear announcements: the weather forecast, sports scores and warnings that warming weather will bring out wild boar, fire ants, ticks and poisonous snakes.
There's also an API for programmatic distribution of weather forecasts, sports scores and other structured data.
SeatGeek is a web application that forecasts sports and concert ticket prices on the secondary market, analogous to what Farecast (now Bing Travel) does for airline tickets.
Sporthis Their pitch: sporthis is the mobile app where users challenge friends by forecasting on sport events.
Silver said the new site will mix sports forecasting and analysis with forecasting on economics, the weather, culture and more – possibly to include the Oscars.
Forecasting nobility in sports is tougher than predicting the weather, which mercifully held Monday at the sodden United States Open for the final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
Motivated by a paucity of research on sports forecasting, this paper examines how well individuals with varying degrees of relevant knowledge predict football (soccer) and how much confidence they have in their predictions.
The company was founded in September, 2007 and has raised $1.5 million in angel funding from Applied Semantics co-founder Gil Ebaz, Frontera Capital, and Fine (who is also the chairman of sports forecasting company Accuscore and was previously the founder of Youbet.com).
John manages the Predictalator, the most advanced sports forecasting software available today.
In addition, since multimedia information, such as train schedule, weather forecast, live news, sports and finance, is more and more popular in railway communication networks[28], we also consider maximizing the SCTP throughput in our scheme.
