Prosper.com is an online peer-to-peer lending system for borrowing money and investing in loans
through an open and transparent auction model. Prosper.com borrowers create credit profiles
containing information lenders can review before determining whether to invest or not in a
borrower. Even with this information, one challenge Prosper.com lenders face is being able to
The California Solar Initiative (CSI) provides incentives to customers in territories administered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). These three utilities represent about 68 percent of California’s electric load. The CSI provides cash back for solar energy systems for existing homes, as well as existing and new commercial, industrial, government, non-profit, and agricultural properties – within the service territories of the three above-listed utilities.
The goal of this project is to provide buyers who attend Federal government car auctions, a simple indicator of whether or not to bid for specific vehicles, thus helping to improve their decision-making process and their chances of winning a fair bid.
We thank Karl Olson for sharing the data and the problem.
Prof. Galit Shmueli, Institute of Service Science, College of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, 101 Kuang Fu Road Sec. 2, Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan
