Venezuelan Spring EMBERS predictions

As featured in the Big Data Journal: “Forecasting has long been a mystic art with techniques shrouded in mystery. Approaches from big data and machine learning are now revolutionizing the science of predictive analytics. The EMBERS system has been producing early warnings of civil unrest across Latin America for over two years. In February 2014, EMBERS forecast the occurrence and spread of student-led protests in Venezuela days in advance. For more information, please see the article by Doyle and colleagues in this issue of Big Data.” Read more