Is Astrology/Horoscope a science? With increasing confidence in predictive algorithms and machine learning, will we think about it differently?

Imagine a repository of Big Data that contains all human events along with their information.

• Birth date, place of birth, time of birth, gender, life events both positive and negative captured for billions of people along with age of the individual when the event occurred
• personality traits that are observable including preferences
• Also add place of birth, date of birth of parents as parameters to include

Imagine enriching that data with planetary positions for each and every second

• Time dimension of data which repeats every few years
  

Run algorithms to correlate all the above information, you may have enough sample size for every individual to see a pattern of events.

Currently we don’t have access to algorithms that were used to come up with predictions but only predictions with some limited parameters like date and time of birth. This is leading us to come up with general predictions which have higher statistical error?

It will be interesting to see what happens when big data predictions mature and someone does a research in this area.

Can this be extended to palmistry as well? Use visual data to correct above big data to see patterns?

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