{"id":836,"date":"2015-01-26T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:08:52","slug":"the-topsy-turvy-world-of-trendspotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"The Topsy-Turvy World of Trendspotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.howstuffworks.com\/trend-forecasters.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d0\/Poster_of_Alexander_Crystal_Seer.jpg\/226px-Poster_of_Alexander_Crystal_Seer.jpg\" alt=\"Poster of Alexander \" width=\"226\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a>Trend forecasters project everything from staffing and hiring needs to next year\u2019s \u201cit\u201d color. Through a combination of instinct, experience, statistical modeling and not a little bit of finger-crossing, they tell clients where best to place their billion-dollar bets. Even granting the occasional self-fulfilling prophecy, it\u2019s never been an easy gig, and the consequences of failure can be ruinous.<\/p>\n<p>Today, big data is changing the field, providing unprecedented amounts of information even as it churns out predictive algorithms no one quite understands. In this article, I take a look at the past and future of this prognosticative trade and examine \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.howstuffworks.com\/trend-forecasters.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Trend Forecasters Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend forecasters project everything from staffing and hiring needs to next year\u2019s \u201cit\u201d color. Through a combination of instinct, experience, statistical modeling and not a little bit of finger-crossing, they tell clients where best to place their billion-dollar bets. Even granting the occasional self-fulfilling prophecy, it\u2019s never been an easy gig, and the consequences of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Topsy-Turvy World of Trendspotting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,63,128,46,4,312,415,13],"tags":[959,24,726,953,952,954,951,16,957,950,956,955,958,21,41],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-consumer","category-culture","category-film","category-gadgets","category-history","category-music","category-psychology","category-technology","tag-arima","tag-behavior","tag-big-data","tag-bubble","tag-business","tag-color","tag-design","tag-economics","tag-evidence-based-medicine","tag-fashion","tag-heat-maps","tag-predictive-policing","tag-regression","tag-social-media","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}