Oh Google, is there anything you can’t do?

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1. April says

   cooooool!

   January 20, 2010, 7:30 pm Reply
2. Chandan says

   Amazing!

   January 20, 2010, 9:55 pm Reply
3. Pete says

   Hal Varian, and a coauthor I can’t recall, have a paper on doing just that for the U.S.. Their model is more accurate than previous forecasting models, apparently.

   January 20, 2010, 10:49 pm Reply
4. D. Watson says

   Donald Marron has important notes about using Google’s unemployment data, though: see here

   January 21, 2010, 2:07 pm Reply
5. D. Watson says

   Donald Marron has some important notes about using the Google unemployment numbers here.

   Not sure why that doesn’t seem to have gone through so I’ll try again. Apologies if I repeated myself.

   January 21, 2010, 2:10 pm Reply