Predicting the Unknown: The History and Future of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

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S. KampakisPredicting the Unknownhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9505-2_10

10. Forecasting and Predicting the Future: The Fox and the Trump

Stylianos Kampakis¹  

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London, UK

 

“Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.”

—Lao Tzu

“I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”

—Winston Churchill

Forecasting has been described as a “dark art.” There is something inherently beguiling about it that latches on to popular imagination; from all the applications of data science, forecasting is among the ones that fascinate the public the most. Predicting the ...