Reading tea leaves in the tourism industry: A Case Study in the Gulf Oil Spill

«A few years ago, our in-house economists, Hal Varian and Hyunyoung Choi, demonstrated how to “ predict the present ” with monthly visitor arrivals to Hong Kong. We took this idea further to see if search queries could predict the future. If users start to research their travel plans some we…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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