OMG!!! Google Prediction API

Google has a prediction api available: http://code.google.com/apis/predict/

If anyone gets an invite to this would you consider collaborating on a pattern-finding system. I can contribute 100 million ticks to the project.

Very interesting. Reminds me of work I have been involved in previously. Modelling data in sports betting, my work being on the mathematical side, not the coding side.

I normally have several very good coders at my disposal. They are totally tied up on website and iPhone development right now though. Maybe in a month I could free someone up for something like this.

Might I suggest that such a project focused on a single pair, over a single time period, and over a single time frame. My experience of modelling sports betting clearly showed that focusing on a single niche was far more effective than trying to include all the various different permutations.

Believe it or not, folks will go on twitter and give away their invitations to folks. That is how I got google wave at first. Something to try and hope it helps.