Big data predicts 2014 World Cup Brazil wins 2016 US president

Shortly before this year, a member of the Microsoft Research team, David Rothschild, teamed up with the Office team to develop an Excel app to predict the 2013 Oscar awards. In the end, The prediction app guessed 19 of the 24 Oscars, and this time they used the app to predict the outcome of next year's events.

Today, Microsoft officially released an interview with Rothschild, which talked about predicting the 2014 American rugby Super Bowl and the World Cup with the app he developed. Rothschild said their predictions were based on a lot of data and a detailed algorithm.

According to Rothschild, the Seattle Sea Hawks (Seattle Seahawks) will have a 27.7% chance of winning in the 2014 Super Bowl, with the Denver Mustang (Denver Broncos) in the second place, with 21.3% Of the 2014 Brazil World Cup, the forecast results show that the home combat Brazil will be the biggest favourites, their title probability is 22.5%.

In a forecast for the 2016 U.S. election, the model favoured Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who had a 32% chance of becoming the first female president in U.S. history.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)