Pop-Culture Index or “what’s hot, what’s not”
The idea is to empower individuals to predict future trends before they become popular. Trends can be be split by language or geographical regions.
Fashion and Music have underlying financial motives and value and can be easily quantified via social and other channels (detailed below). With this index, people can front-run culture and become trend setters, rather than followers.
In many predictions, users are powerless, and merely bet or guess. But with music and fashion, users can participate on every level and even promote their own items if they fit within the requirements. For these reasons, I think this is more interesting and interactive.
Fashion: http://i.imgur.com/uLapLny.jpg Listing a trend: Designers (or anyone with a design idea) can upload photos or designs of trend ideas, such as: *The designer’s upcoming seasonal line *A specific trend idea *A design or prototype of an article of clothing Types of votes: Using data set, quantify the success level needed then allow users to vote successful (hot) or not Timelines: The timeline will be 3-4 months, which is long enough for a full fashion season. Quantifying real world data: what real world data will be used to justify voting. *company sales metrics *website/search terms for items *social media metrics
Music Listing a song: *Band name *Album or Song Title *Available recording *Name of Record Label *Public listing of song for data extraction (youtube, soundcloud, website/search) Types of votes: Using data set, quantify the success level needed then allow users to vote successful or not Timelines: Period of time allocated for success (3-6 months?)
