IBM program director praises Annenberg's Film Forcaster

The Film Forcaster, a Twitter box office predictor developed in the Annenberg Innovation Lab, was mentioned by David Barnes, IBM's program director of emerging Internet technologies, in an Oct. 18 ZDNet article titled "IBM discusses bringing big data applications to business." The article states: "Barnes offered an example of how BigSheets was implemented as an end user tool at USC’s Annenberg School for journalism and communications. Students — not IT managers or developers — created a 'film forecaster,' which collected information from all over the Internet that revealed positive and negative comments about different movies to predict which ones would be blockbusters, and therefore identify those findings easily through an infographic." Read the entire article here.