Sections offered FALL 2020:
#13574 |
WAYNE WINSTON |
Th 4:55-7:55pm |
UB M045 |
CLASS NOTES: UB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Above class meets In Person. For more information visit https://fall2020.iu.edu/learning-modes/
If we have earned anything recently, it is we don’t know what will happen in the future. In the course you will learn through interesting case studies how analytics professionals try and predict the future. We will use Excel, but there are no course prerequisites. I will teach you all the needed Excel in class. Case studies will include
- Modeling the future of the coronavirus pandemic
- What is the future of income inequality?
- How can we fix politics in the US?
- Can I predict the market?
- Can we predict financial crises?
- How does Netflix predict if you will like a show?\
- How can we forecast sporting event outcomes?
- Can we predict heart attacks?
- How do Prediction markets forecast the future?
- How did Buzzfeed know the dress would go viral?
- How do hedge funds reduce market risk?
- How can I predict movie sales or TV ratings for a new movie or show?
- How can I predict sales of a new product?
- How do polls go wrong?
- How can I forecast daily customer counts at a restaurant?
- Can I predict if a song will be a hit?
- How can I know if a fund like Madoff’s is a fraud?
- How will analytics be used in future US elections?
- How does Monte Carlo Simulation predict the future?
- How do we evaluate forecasts?