Last week I attended the International Symposium on Forecasting 2016. It was very interesting and enjoyable. Apart from the workshop on forecasting with R, I gave the following presentations:
Forecasting with Temporal Hierarchies
This presentation was given to the practitioner track of the conference and its aim was to introduce the basic idea of temporal hierarchies for forecasting and highlight the forecasting and business challenges they can help address. You can read more details in the abstract
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Measuring Forecasting Performance: A Complex Task
This research presentation introduces a new error metric to evaluate forecast performance. Although there has been substantial research on accuracy metrics, there has been very limited work on bias metrics that is an equally important dimension of performance. An interesting aspect of the proposed metric are the informative visualisations of accuracy and bias. You can read more details in the abstract
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