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Figgycal on 07 May 2014

I'm an econ major and I've been looking for ways to use my analysis skillz. I want in, please. Goodluck finding other people who want to do unpaid work though.



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vivster on 07 May 2014
badgenome said:

Also, it causes some people to come in here under false pretenses and leave disappointed.

This. Why would you deliberately deceive your fellow men by putting anal in the title? :(



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NiKKoM on 07 May 2014

I'll do everyhting in my power to get johnlucas and crazzyman for you group



 

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theprof00 on 07 May 2014
Figgycal said:

I'm an econ major and I've been looking for ways to use my analysis skillz. I want in, please. Goodluck finding other people who want to do unpaid work though.

You know who else did a lot of unpaid work? ioi.

I understand where you're coming from, but at least for me, I've been putting a lot of effort into unpaid work for years...and I'm sure there are at least a dozen like me on here. The problem is there's no cohesiveness. With a good group, we could turn all this unpaid work into very well paid work.



kirby007 on 07 May 2014

i'll be the ysis



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TechnoHobbit on 07 May 2014

Interesting, veryyy interesting.

If it's starting out just for fun and sport sign me up.



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theprof00 on 08 May 2014
TechnoHobbit said:
Interesting, veryyy interesting.

If it's starting out just for fun and sport sign me up.

sounds good my man. I'll keep you up to date.



AnthonyW86 on 08 May 2014
theprof00 said:

Pardon the title, it's meant for hits.

On Tuesday IDC came out with a 73 page report detailing what they expect to happen over the course of the generation in terms of sales.
It doesn't take a spurge to see that 51m ps4's sold by 2016 is a pretty fanciful number. IDC is a professional analsyt group that sells their data and analysis.

I believe we could be doing a much better job.

So, I'm looking for some of the best and brightest to form a new group dedicated to observing trends and predicting sales. Through sheer merit of the 10-week countdown and NPD prediction threads, I already know of a few.

The goal is to create a group, discuss ideas, and write our own sales analyses...starting out just for fun and sport, and possibly later evolving into something more serious.

Goals will be gathering data, identifying which significant events influenced sales. This will take research. Typically, we will go through one year and with data in hand scour the web to find what made sales go up from one week to the next. Using this set of influential factors, on top of our own ideas about trends, and predictive capabilities on price-drops, remodels, and games releases, I believe we can estimate with the best of them.

This takes an extremely objective mind, as well as creativity and business sense. Anyone is free to join and prove their merit. :D

Once we've found a group of starting members, I'll create a new thread for discussion, and we'll go from there.

As always, thanks for reading.
-Prof

The IDC report said 51 million ps4's in 2016, not by 2016. And since later in the article they mention the Xbox One to be ahead in the U.S. at the end of 2016 the PS4 number is probably for the end of 2016 aswell. The topic that was made for the article simply stated it wrong in the title.



Salnax on 08 May 2014

I'm bad at predictions, but am pretty good at finding numbers, putting them together, and creating stories out of them.

consider me interested.



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theprof00 on 08 May 2014
AnthonyW86 said:
theprof00 said:

Pardon the title, it's meant for hits.

On Tuesday IDC came out with a 73 page report detailing what they expect to happen over the course of the generation in terms of sales.
It doesn't take a spurge to see that 51m ps4's sold by 2016 is a pretty fanciful number. IDC is a professional analsyt group that sells their data and analysis.

I believe we could be doing a much better job.

So, I'm looking for some of the best and brightest to form a new group dedicated to observing trends and predicting sales. Through sheer merit of the 10-week countdown and NPD prediction threads, I already know of a few.

The goal is to create a group, discuss ideas, and write our own sales analyses...starting out just for fun and sport, and possibly later evolving into something more serious.

Goals will be gathering data, identifying which significant events influenced sales. This will take research. Typically, we will go through one year and with data in hand scour the web to find what made sales go up from one week to the next. Using this set of influential factors, on top of our own ideas about trends, and predictive capabilities on price-drops, remodels, and games releases, I believe we can estimate with the best of them.

This takes an extremely objective mind, as well as creativity and business sense. Anyone is free to join and prove their merit. :D

Once we've found a group of starting members, I'll create a new thread for discussion, and we'll go from there.

As always, thanks for reading.
-Prof

The IDC report said 51 million ps4's in 2016, not by 2016. And since later in the article they mention the Xbox One to be ahead in the U.S. at the end of 2016 the PS4 number is probably for the end of 2016 aswell. The topic that was made for the article simply stated it wrong in the title.

Even so, 51m is high for end of 2016, and anyone here could tell you it's a pretty safe bet, likely within 10%. The point is, why should those guys be the ones selling analyses when those kind of statements should be second nature to anyone here.