Attention Participants!
The time is almost here! We are pleased to announce that our East Coast Analysis Training Workshop will be held at the Baltimore Maritime Institute Conference Center from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon November 10-11, 2012. (The West Coast workshop is expected to be in February.)
Predicting the future isn’t easy, that’s why we’re inviting YOU to attend!
The workshop aims to make participants better forecasters with training and hands-on sessions. You will have the opportunity to learn how to be better at “betting” in the prediction market, how to anticipate and correct cognitive biases, and about several tools, techniques, and theories in the judgment and decision sciences that are used across government and industry to predict the future. Robin Hanson, the “father of prediction markets” and other leading research scientists will be sharing their knowledge and experience with participants.
Due to an overwhelming response last year, those of you that have been anticipating the workshop can now RSVP in advance! Please help us tailor this workshop by completing our Pre-Workshop Planning Survey below.
Click here to register for the workshop and take the survey
The workshop will include your room for Saturday night and all meals from lunch Saturday through lunch Sunday provided at the Maritime Institute Conference Center. If you live within 99 miles you will be reimbursed a $50 travel stipend; if you live 100-199 miles away you will be reimbursed $100, and if you live more than 200 miles away you will be reimbursed $150.
*Space is very limited, so please take our survey right away to maximize your chances of being accepted into the workshop. *Further details on the workshop agenda will be provided to invited participants.
In the meantime, HAPPY FORECASTING!
***UPDATE*** Our registration site is now live! Please visit https://daggre.c4i.gmu.edu/conferences/login.php to fill out necessary information to receive travel reimbursements and to download a copy of the latest agenda.
The conference back in March was an amazing experience and I wish I could visit again from Minnesota for this one too. Stipend amounts took too much of a hit for how far away I am. The project is still just as fun and interesting regardless and I’ll be sticking with it.
Glad you’re still with us, and sorry you won’t make it, though I understand.
Incidentally, it appears that those who attended the workshop (and are still active) are doing much better that other participants, even after removing outliers.
I agree. I was just noticing that a few days ago as well. I often think of the things I learned during the conferences Wheaton put on during that weekend, and overall I learned more about this process during my time there.
I plan on coming in February though if selected. I certainly want to experience something like this again. This whole project actually inspired me to continue on with my original college plan I started in 09. I started at the University of Minnesota a few weeks ago as a Sociology major, so it has been quite influential to me and my life. Thanks for all your work and making this possible.
Wow!
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Am I correct in understanding that this post/survey/invitation is for the east coast conference only? Will you be making another announcement for the west coast conference? I would love to attend on the west coast and don’t want to miss out due to a misunderstanding.
Yes, this is for the east-coast conference only. We will do a separate announcement for the west-coast conference, expected to be in February. Hope to see you there!
In case you didn’t see the other post, our keynote speaker is David Rothschild, whose blog The Signal has been forecasting the US Presidential election using prediction markets. He will have just wrapped up that and a newer experiment, PredictWise.
On Saturday night, we will have DAGGRE’s Mark Burgman of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Risk Analysis.
Agenda is nearly final. It looks like we will have four sessions running three tracks.
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