{"id":2408,"date":"2017-04-21T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2017-04-21T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T17:18:47","slug":"disney-world-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/disney-world-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney world Waiting Line Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>AVOID LINES AT DISNEY WORLD BY PREDICTING HOW LONG YOU\u2019LL WAIT&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Len Testa, Computer Scientist TouringPlans.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>APRIL 21, 2017 1:30PM \u2013 2:30PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Seminar Room, Room 222, TC2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people visit Walt Disney World annually. &#8220;Long waits in line&#8221; is one of their most frequent complaints.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s possible to minimize these visitors&#8217; waits, if you can predict how long the lines will be at any time of day.<br \/>\nIn this talk you&#8217;ll hear how the team at TouringPlans.com uses statistics, machine learning, and computer science to predict wait times at every Walt Disney World ride, for up to 365 days in advance. You&#8217;ll also hear real-world examples of how TouringPlans deals with conflicting &#8211; andoften intentionally incorrect &#8211; source data when setting up their machine learning systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVOID LINES AT DISNEY WORLD BY PREDICTING HOW LONG YOU\u2019LL WAIT&#8221; Speaker: Len Testa, Computer Scientist TouringPlans.com APRIL 21, 2017 1:30PM \u2013 2:30PM Seminar Room, Room 222, TC2 Abstract: Millions of people visit Walt Disney World annually. &#8220;Long waits in line&#8221; is one of their most frequent complaints. It&#8217;s possible to minimize these visitors&#8217; waits, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/disney-world-colloquium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disney world Waiting Line Colloquium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/statistics\/dms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}