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Grand Data Challenge of 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, 
Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP14)
April 2 - April 4, 2014, UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA

http://sbp-conference.org/


SBP is pleased to offer a challenge problem again in 2014, and we expect it to 
build on the successes of previous years' challenge problems. The theme of the 
SBP 2014 Challenge is how to better demonstrate the power and value of "big 
data" in the social sciences.


Challenge Overview

We invite participants to explore the Global Database of Events, Language and 
Tone (GDELT), an expansive set containing a quarter-billion geo-referenced 
political news events covering the whole world since 1979, describing who did 
what to whom when and where, and use GDELT to

* Demonstrate the applications of spatial, temporal and network methodologies 
and their interactions,
* Identify the latent "influencers" of social movement and media-based 
political competition,
* Experimentally validate and improve models for social phenomena,
* Visualize social movements of different types on all levels at a glance,
* Propose solutions to societal problems including health care and public 
safety using data- and model- based reasoning, and
* To suggest new creative applications using the GDELT data.


Important Dates
* Submission deadline: December 20, 2013 (23:59 PST)
* Notification of Winners: January 17, 2014


Contacts:
For more information, please contact Wen Dong at  wend...@gmail.com,  or
Katherine Chuang at katychu...@gmail.com, or Kevin Xu at kevi...@outlook.com .

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