The Prediction Project
@PredictionX
From 2000BC to next week’s weather, we document & analyze how humans predict futures over time. Founded by @AlyssaAGoodman @Harvard ft. experts around the 🌎
Ever wonder where the @PredictionX logo came from? The image that inspired us is actually from the Madrid Codex, one of the few surviving books from the Maya Civilisation, dated back to c.900-1521 A.D. Priests used the codex to record divination rituals—including human sacrifice!
Political predictions aren’t usually included in the prediction project, but I could not resist this one from the New York Times. (Kamala will win) nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opi…
Let’s build this into @PredictionX | CityScope — MIT Media Lab! media.mit.edu/projects/citys…
We are definitely not so good at predicting the future of society! Happy new year from the @nytimes and PredictionX #GenEd1112 nytimes.com/2023/12/31/bri…
Look out for #GenEd1112 if you’re curious to see how our ideas about new content for our on-campus Harvard Prediction class. And here’s the first post! youtu.be/eAQheGmbxEk?si…
Someday, future #astronomers will know what "UniverseTBD" meant to our field. Today, I was honored to see it taking off. Thanks @errai34 @TingAstro @jegpeek @adsabs @MSFTResearch @OpenAI @dpfink et al. for letting me in early on this revolution! (photos @errai34 ++ talk today!)
Forecasting the production and movement of smoke at high resolution is extremely difficult! And important nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/…
Poor Air Quality Expected for parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire on June 1, 2023 | US EPA epa.gov/newsreleases/p…
This prescient 2018 talk by @benbendc on “Algorithmic Accountability: Designing for Safety” offers good strategies for dealing w our present #AI challenges @RadInstitute @harvard_data @PredictionX @Harvard radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2018-ben…
Maybe @FiveThirtyEight could go “home” to @NYTimes? nytimes.com/2023/04/25/bus…
Put my knowledge of John Snow and the cholera epidemic acquired via @PredictionX to work yesterday while editing an article for @AttendSafe. Thanks, Professor @AlyssaAGoodman.
Scientists at @exxonmobil, as far back as the 1970s and 1980s, made really on-target predictions of global #climatechange. Read more from @PredictionX at predictionx.org/forum/earth/ex…, and in the original post from @grist, who posted the great video that sums it all up. #uncertainty
Impressive study showing a power to predict risk of endometrial cancer, using a lasso model on a very large data set, out now from @joy_shi1 and colleagues at @Harvard. I will feature this as an example in my @Harvard GenEd class on @PredictionX news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
Quick, @Harvard students--places are almost gone! Register for GenEd 1112 today.
I could not agree more with @AlbertoCairo that we need to help people understand (the visual representation of) #uncertainty! AND that “who” is the most important of the “10 Questions” @10qviz #dataviz4society cf. @PredictionX predictionx.org/introduction-t…
And post your questions here app.sli.do/event/gkwWB6Wv…
Join online now radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2022-a-p…
“How you face the rising sea depends on the accident of your birth.” @SominiSengupta kicking off at @Harvard @RadInstitute 2022 Science Symposium on #climatechange. Zoom link to follow in 🧵
First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment! media.nature.com/lw767/magazine… nature.com/articles/d4158…