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I did a little research on the paper you mentioned. As it turns out, Hamlet eventually turned into Farecast. This is from Professor Oren Etzioni’s website: “Etzioni is the founder of Farecast—a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations. The company was formerly known as Hamlet (”to buy or not to buy…that is the question”). Farecast was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.”

Is this just a non-functioning pre-beta presentation, or is this supposed to be a working model?

So, this explains the consecutive posts with almost the same message. Just curious, how many HTML links can you post in one message without being blocked by the TechCrunch spam filter? Perhaps if you can give us a hint, then I will avoid posting HTML links in the future. The info that I like to share with readers here at TechCrunch is quite informative related to state-of-the-art technology that some might find interesting perhaps for technology implementation, but lots of my posts in the past where I have included HTML links are just being blocked by the TechCrunch spam filter.

“To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price”

are available in the most popular Java open source data-mining project from here in New Zealand called WEKA , from the University of Waikato. I can’t provide the link for WEKA , since any post with more than one HTML link here, the TechCrunch spamfilter blocks it, but just Google for it using search terms as “WEKA Java” or “WEKA data mining”, you can’t missed it.

To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price

are available in the most popular Java open source data-mining project from here in New Zealand called WEKA , from the University of Waikato. I can’t provide the link for WEKA , since any post with more than one HTML link here, the TechCrunch spamfilter blocks it, but just Google for it using search terms as “WEKA Java” or “WEKA data mining”, you can’t missed it.

Abstract:
As product prices become increasingly available on the World Wide Web, consumers attempt to understand how corporations vary these prices over time. However, corporations change prices based on proprietary algorithms and hidden variables (e.g., the number of unsold seats on a flight). Is it possible to develop data mining techniques that will enable consumers to predict price changes under these conditions?

This paper reports on a pilot study in the domain of airline ticket prices where we recorded over 12,000 price observations over a 41 day period. When trained on this data, Hamlet — our multi-strategy data mining algorithm — generated a predictive model that saved 341 simulated passengers $198,074 by advising them when to buy and when to postpone ticket purchases. Remarkably, a clairvoyant algorithm with complete knowledge of future prices could save at most $320,572 in our simulation, thus Hamlet’s savings were 61.8% of optimal. The algorithm’s savings of $198,074 represents an average savings of 23.8% for the 341 passengers for whom savings are possible. Overall, Hamlet saved 4.4% of the ticket price averaged over the entire set of 4,488 simulated passengers. Our pilot study suggests that mining of price data available over the web has the potential to save consumers substantial sums of money per annum.

Abstract:
As product prices become increasingly available on the World Wide Web, consumers attempt to understand how corporations vary these prices over time. However, corporations change prices based on proprietary algorithms and hidden variables (e.g., the number of unsold seats on a flight). Is it possible to develop data mining techniques that will enable consumers to predict price changes under these conditions?

This paper reports on a pilot study in the domain of airline ticket prices where we recorded over 12,000 price observations over a 41 day period. When trained on this data, Hamlet — our multi-strategy data mining algorithm — generated a predictive model that saved 341 simulated passengers $198,074 by advising them when to buy and when to postpone ticket purchases. Remarkably, a clairvoyant algorithm with complete knowledge of future prices could save at most $320,572 in our simulation, thus Hamlet’s savings were 61.8% of optimal. The algorithm’s savings of $198,074 represents an average savings of 23.8% for the 341 passengers for whom savings are possible. Overall, Hamlet saved 4.4% of the ticket price averaged over the entire set of 4,488 simulated passengers. Our pilot study suggests that mining of price data available over the web has the potential to save consumers substantial sums of money per annum.

And also , the various algorithms covered in this paper :

“To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price”
http://knight.c...amlet-kdd03.pdf

are available in the most popular Java open source data-mining project from here in New Zealand called WEKA , from the University of Waikato. I can’t provide the link for WEKA , since any post with more than one HTML link here, the TechCrunch spamfilter blocks it, but just Google for it using search terms as “WEKA Java” or “WEKA data mining”, you can’t missed it.

Abstract:
As product prices become increasingly available on the World Wide Web, consumers attempt to understand how corporations vary these prices over time. However, corporations change prices based on proprietary algorithms and hidden variables (e.g., the number of unsold seats on a flight). Is it possible to develop data mining techniques that will enable consumers to predict price changes under these conditions?

This paper reports on a pilot study in the domain of airline ticket prices where we recorded over 12,000 price observations over a 41 day period. When trained on this data, Hamlet — our multi-strategy data mining algorithm — generated a predictive model that saved 341 simulated passengers $198,074 by advising them when to buy and when to postpone ticket purchases. Remarkably, a clairvoyant algorithm with complete knowledge of future prices could save at most $320,572 in our simulation, thus Hamlet’s savings were 61.8% of optimal. The algorithm’s savings of $198,074 represents an average savings of 23.8% for the 341 passengers for whom savings are possible. Overall, Hamlet saved 4.4% of the ticket price averaged over the entire set of 4,488 simulated passengers. Our pilot study suggests that mining of price data available over the web has the potential to save consumers substantial sums of money per annum.

And also , the various algorithms covered in this paper : To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price are available in the most popular Java open source data-mining project from here in New Zealand called WEKA , from the University of Waikato. I can’t provide the link for WEKA , since any post with more than one HTML link here, the TechCrunch spamfilter blocks it, but just Google for it using search terms as “WEKA Java” or “WEKA data mining”, you can’t missed it.

Abstract:
As product prices become increasingly available on the World Wide Web, consumers attempt to understand how corporations vary these prices over time. However, corporations change prices based on proprietary algorithms and hidden variables (e.g., the number of unsold seats on a flight). Is it possible to develop data mining techniques that will enable consumers to predict price changes under these conditions?

This paper reports on a pilot study in the domain of airline ticket prices where we recorded over 12,000 price observations over a 41 day period. When trained on this data, Hamlet — our multi-strategy data mining algorithm — generated a predictive model that saved 341 simulated passengers $198,074 by advising them when to buy and when to postpone ticket purchases. Remarkably, a clairvoyant algorithm with complete knowledge of future prices could save at most $320,572 in our simulation, thus Hamlet’s savings were 61.8% of optimal. The algorithm’s savings of $198,074 represents an average savings of 23.8% for the 341 passengers for whom savings are possible. Overall, Hamlet saved 4.4% of the ticket price averaged over the entire set of 4,488 simulated passengers. Our pilot study suggests that mining of price data available over the web has the potential to save consumers substantial sums of money per annum.

And also , the various algorithms covered in this paper : To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price are available in the most popular Java open source data-mining project from here in New Zealand called WEKA , from the University of Waikato. I can’t provide the link for WEKA , since any post with more than one HTML link, the TechCrunch spamfilter blocks it, but just Google for it using search terms as “WEKA Java”, you can’t missed it.

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… and TechCrunch (aka “All Things Y!”) traffic has fallen off the table in the past week.

They must not cover some reasonable size airlines yet – qantas, emirates, air nz.

Another story not reported by TC, Robert Scoble, self proclaimed, the first ever blogger, is rapidly and largely losing his audience. I noticed this progression start earlier this year, and it hasn’t stopped yet. When I saw this I shed a tear.

Gas is getting up near $5 a gallon here in SoCal. You must be making crazy money my friend. Good luck with the Challenger. That’s a fscking sweet vehicle.

If I was insanely rich I would buy my favorite car in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
http://www.gtrb...tsukuba-001.jpg

I actually want most of the cars in Gran Turismo 5.

Here is the article on my thoughts.

http://www.crun...g-facebook.html

I bought that car in 06 It was a 05 model when I got it, and was actually looking for a supra but couldn’t find a newer one.
The car did what i wanted it to do and that’s help find the chicks :} I was 19 then.Hopefully next year I will be able to buy a 09 Dodge Challenger I want that big 6.1 V8