Microsoft’s Bing Predicts engine correctly forecasts the Scottish Independence Referendum vote

Microsoft’s Bing Predicts engine correctly forecasts the Scottish Independence Referendum vote

Big Data. We hear about it a lot these days. But what does it actually mean? And what does it actually do? Well, one way we are utilising the power of ‘big data’ (which effectively just means ‘data’, but lots and lots of it) at Microsoft is through our Bing Predicts engine. It’s an initiative that uses machine-learning models to analyse and detect patterns from a range of (big) data sources such as the web and social activity in order to make...
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