Sentences with phrase «of number crunchers»

Since the 1950s, social scientists have been comparing the predictive accuracies of number crunchers and traditional experts — and finding that statistical models consistently outpredict experts.

This is a pedagogy useful for creating armies of number crunchers and for downgrading teachers to supervising the administration of standardized tests, but not much more.

BALTIMORE — Most mathematicians are more interested in double integrals than triple axels, but one team of number crunchers is concerned that the International Skating Union's new rules for awarding marks for competitive figure skating may fall flat on their face.

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Last year, the company added 70 employees to its roster (head count is one signal number crunchers say indicates growth) for a current total of more than 250.

An increase of just $ 10 a barrel would likely boost any measure of inflation government number crunchers could devise above the Fed's 2 percent target for price stability.

The Fed's own number crunchers say that 11 % delinquency rate only reflects only about half of the delinquencies because it doesn't look at loans under forbearance or grace periods.

He's not a Bert Blyleven type, who will suddenly get a surge of support from numbers crunchers.

While it can be hard to find a way of accurately measuring a player's value, the number crunchers show PSG may have overpaid for Neymar by about # 64million — though we doubt they'll care.

Unfortunately our success led to the arrival of the middling bloodsucker Kroenke and that was when the number - crunchers invaded our team and devised a formula that maximized profits with little to no concern for truly competing at the highest levels, thus the emergence of the Wenger Cup.

A point worth remembering is that successful handicappers usually have some skill at this and most groups of professional bettors have at least one «number cruncher» among them who didn't muck around at the back of the class and paid attention in school during math lessons.

Under par performances and limited match minutes have seen the number crunchers over at the bookies slash the Manchester United and England captain's odds to a tight 4/1 to leave the United come the start of next year.

Opening those massive stores of statistical data to researchers, watchdogs and that crazy guy who's coding in his basement all night could have serious positive effects, not the least in bringing in a lot more number - crunchers to help with analysis and also with relating that data to other non-governmental sources.

Meanwhile, a previously unknown number cruncher called Nate Silver appeared to prove that statistical analysis was a far better predictor of the result than traditional pollsters, sending shockwaves through politics.

The ace political number cruncher Robert (now Lord) Hayward tells me: «Unless something substantial changes in the remaining days of the Euro referendum campaign, the balance of probability is that the nation will vote to leave.»

«The number crunchers were telling him that there was good evidence that the Tories» economic recovery was only going to work for a few people rather than for everyone — and that in an election about the cost of living, he would always have the upper hand.»

But the party's number crunchers have been hard at work and reckon they're either ahead of the SNP or within a single percentage point of them in more than a dozen more.

Political numbers cruncher Jerry Skurnik called Ulrich the «strongest» of the contenders mentioned so far, noting about 50,000 to 60,000 of the voters in his Council district also live in NY - 9.

What must be worrying for the number crunchers in the Lib Dem Cowley Street HQ is that Clegg and the Lib Dems should have been the natural depository of the dustbin vote of those who are fleeing from the disaster which is Gordon Brown.

According to Democratic consultant and numbers - cruncher Matt Isbell, this is the highest share of the vote received by any Florida Democrat in at least a decade.

Liberal Democrats have been polled on their favourite number - crunchers, with the choice of self - proclaimed Jeremiah of Twickenham Vince Cable, or the member of the powerful «quad» group of ministers, Danny Alexander.

While Ukip has been commanding the headlines, and the prospects of the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party cause political number - crunchers to scratch their heads, the Greens have been gradually gaining ground.

De Blasio is relying on Heastie and his members to carry his water in those talks, and the two men huddled for over an hour Saturday afternoon along with several mayoral aides including Dean Fuleihan, director of the city's Office of Management and Budget and formerly a top number cruncher in the Assembly.

Now, astrophysicists Michael Warren and Chris Fryer have used the IBM RS / 6000 SP supercomputer of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland, California, (the fourth fastest number cruncher in the world) to carry out the first three - dimensional supernova simulations.

The speediness was only possible because the collaboration had approved the text of the paper in advance, leaving just a few gaps to fill in once the number - crunchers had analysed 284 of the first ALICE collisions.

A tactical RPG at heart, filled with equal measures of gothic Lolita fetishizing and wicked humor, Mugen Souls is a quirky little gem that will satisfy the most hardcore number crunchers, while leaving the rest of us slightly bored after the first hours.

His solution is to — with the help of unprepossessing Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a geeky numbers - cruncher whose radical ideas are dismissed by every other club in the league — completely throw out the conventional wisdom and apply a whole new set of metrics to measure player skills.

But before the staid numbers - cruncher realizes what he's getting into, it's too late to get out, as his increasingly unpredictable new friend drags him through a world of shoot - outs, double - crosses and espionage that could get them both killed in more ways than Calvin can count.

But before the staid numbers - cruncher realizes what he's getting into, it's too late to get out, as his increasingly unpredictable new friend drags him through a world of shoot - outs, double - crosses and espionage that could get them both killed in more ways than he can count.

Suddenly, veteran scouts, with their unempirical observations, were cast aside in favor of Ivy League number - crunchers, and the longstanding value of sacrifice bunts and stolen bases gave way to the cult of on - base percentage and walks.

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking - by - Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres reports on the «crunching» of massive amounts of data.

For the number crunchers, here's what the R8 can do: 0 - 100 in just 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 330kmph.

New information and knowledge have come to light thanks to the efforts of a core group of individuals; author Hugh Howey and his mathematical number cruncher Data Guy have released exhaustive information through the Author Earnings reports designed to help authors make informed decisions concerning their... [Read more...]

So when DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson let slip in an interview last month that «Now there are a million downloads a month of DC stories from our digital publishing,» that gave the numbers crunchers something to play with.

For the number crunchers, IDC has predicted Apple to end up with a market share of 53.8 percent by end 2012 (down from 56.3 percent in 2011), while Android is likely to have 42.7 percent of the market, up from 39.8 a year ago.

It appears that announced bar industry details are in an indistinguishable class from features moaning about Hollywood's «declining» film industry; by neglecting to represent continually developing remote receipts, the number - crunchers bar 60 - 80 % of aggregate b.o. receipts.

It seems that reported pub industry stats are in the same class as headlines bemoaning Hollywood's «declining» box office; by failing to account for constantly - growing foreign receipts, the number - crunchers exclude 60 - 80 % of total b.o. receipts.

Of course some number cruncher could bend some kind of stat so more money can be bled from the publiOf course some number cruncher could bend some kind of stat so more money can be bled from the publiof stat so more money can be bled from the public.

Tom Gisler, CPA at Clifton Larson Allen, says, «Most people think of accountants as number crunchers just sitting at their computers looking at spreadsheets all day.»

Super Crunchers is a more full version of James Montier's 2006 research report, Painting By Numbers: An Ode To Quant, providing several more anecdotes in support of Montier's thesis that simple statistical models outperform the best judgements of experts.

The Fed's own number crunchers say that 11 % delinquency rate only reflects only about half of the delinquencies because it doesn't look at loans under forbearance or grace periods.

In order to determine where Americans» furry and slimy companions can enjoy the best quality of life without breaking the bank, WalletHub's number crunchers compared the creature - friendliness of the 100 largest cities across 21 key metrics.

My mania for all things Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a well known fact around these parts, but it is by no means a singular obsession according to Sony's diligent number crunchers, who calculate a collective total of 27 + years has been logged on the multiplayer demo.

BioWare's trilogy - ending space RPG sold double what Mass Effect 2 managed during its opening month of January 2010, number - cruncher NPD revealed.

Number crunchers checking my calculation might notice that 29 mtoe of electricity is only 362 TWh, not 380.

Cargo Cult logicians accuse the father of Dynamic Logic of getting crunched numbers aver crunching numbers with a number cruncher.

Sometimes in their zeal to exaggerate the «social benefits» of one of its programs, the number - crunchers at government agencies will stoop to absurd arguments that end up coming back to bite them.

But number - crunchers on both sides of the debate will likely keep trying.

Not sure I follow your train of thought, but I can handle that last question: the Hadley graphs clearly come down for the past two years, and I have seen the results from number crunchers which validate that result.

The number crunchers at corporate get very sensitive when they start to see a lot of one star reviews, because they can quantify the how much money that loses their franchises.

Both Lexis and Westlaw have done their usual slew of Joint Ventures, Mergers and Buyouts in the world of legal technology to boost ever decreasing revenues and as late as mid March press departments at both companies were in silent mode as the number crunchers and management run around furiously creating end of... [more]