#forecast

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#anymore #become #certain #each #entire

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economic #forecasting #function #look #make

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast. ↗

— George Osborne

#been #forecast #larger #oil #oil prices

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel. ↗

— Emily Procter

#borrow #channel #college #forecast #i

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#decided #during #early #econometric #economic

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#budgets #econometric #enterprise #facilities #forecasting

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. ↗

— Nate Silver

#good #information #key #limiting #making

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. ↗

— Nate Silver

#influence #same #system #trying #want

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#decimal #economists #forecasts #humor #i

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#almost #broad #broad range #daily #days