FastCompany.com: “DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’LL BE 285 DAYS FROM NOW AT 2 P.M.? THESE DATA-MASTERS DO”

The world of big data does not stop to amaze us. Apparently, data scientists are now able to even predict the future. This is a story published on FastCompany.com about Sadilek and Krumm’s paper titled “Far Out: Predicting Long-Term Human Mobility”:

“Would you like to know how crowded your drive to the beach will be in three weeks? Or where your ex will be on a Friday night next month so that you can avoid him?

Adam Sadilek, formerly of Microsoft, and John Krumm, a principal researcher at Microsoft, were inspired by the question of predicting where people would be in the future and even led off with the query, “Where are you going to be 285 days from now at 2PM?” in their paper, Far Out: Predicting Long-Term Human Mobility.

Read the whole story HERE.

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