Two days back we reported_Bing would make_predictions of the events based on their ability to process trillions of signals to reflect what is happening in the real world. Popular reality tv show “The Voice,” was among the tv shows Bing is making predictions for: How do we make the predictions for_The Voice? The central idea behind the direct approach is that winners and losers correspond to popularity. In broad strokes, we define popularity as the frequency and sentiment of searches combined with social signals and keywords. Placing these signals into our model, we can predict the outcome an event with high confidence. For_The Voice, our model is tuned to account for biases, such asregional_preferences, and other measurable and observable trends. We have also learned how to combine the prior popularity of a contestant with the contribution due to his or her performance. Although we might believe that the outcome of this week’s_The Voicecomes down to how well someone belts out a tune, our data indicates that many people have ‘favorites’...

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