App Can Now Export to Excel After calculating and refining a Bass Model curve to obtain a forecast that you judge to be reasonable, select the Export tab, then click the Export to Excel button to save an Excel spreadsheet of the Bass Model series data. Latest App on Forecast Joy App Page These blogs will…
Samsung Launches the Wearable Smart-Glove Category Today, Samsung and HTC showed the first wearable smart gloves. forecastjoy.com is forecasting that wearable smart-glove annual shipments will pass 300 million units in 2100 and will be commonplace in homes and business around the world. However, because new software apps will be required to make use of these products,…
This Wearable Computing Forecast Makes a Common Mistake Why do professional forecasters do it? Are they lazy or just ignorant? I don’t know, but here is how it goes. Consider the forecast published recently by Business Insider in the article The ‘Internet Of Things’ Will Be Bigger Than The Smartphone, Tablet, And PC Markets Combined. The BI graph…
A New Gadget Is Born Change the Bass Model parameters M, p and q to explore. Use the sliders to watch the curves change. How I Built this Gadget To make this little jewel, I used Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to create a Silverlight gadget, which is hosted in this blog page. The Silverlight gadget…
I have been thinking about tools for technology market forecasters (like me) for many, many years. I’ve even completed a few would-be products (e..g, Excel add-ins). Now I envision a Web-centric service and am building it here. Penetration Curve The first step in any market forecast is the penetration curve, which is a sequence of points each providing the…
Portia Isaacson Bass, Ph.D. Geek grandma tech market forecaster with pug. 40 years of forecasting and still counting. I’ve learned a few things…again, again and again…
Life Is a Lab 