How do technologies like Farecast (now bing) and Flightcaster work?
gtani: There's really good books on Data Mining at Borders, and a recent bunch of "collective intelligence" books; the Manning books are excellent, but you have know java; you probably also want to install Weka and R, look at the Python suite (numpy, scipy, matplotlib), tools like that; also look up the ~107 (!) algorithms that Bellkor used for Netflix comp.http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu...http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-...http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Intelligent-Web-Haralambos-...