[AISWorld] SBP 2015 Grand Data Challenge

[Kang Zhao]

The Grand Data Challenge of the 2015 International Conference on Social
Computing, Behavioral Modeling & PredictionOverview

This year's SBP Grand Challenge problem asks participants to consider the
following question, "how can we use publicly available data on the web and
elsewhere to find social inequality and to aid the disadvantaged?"

>From the Arab Spring to the recent Gamergate scandal, the use of social
media in understanding and mitigating social inequalities and prejudice has
increased at a rapid pace.  At the same time, data used for decades to
study the ways in which social inequalities permeate every facet of social
structure have become increasingly accessible. While many have taken
advantage of these resources to produce new and interesting approaches to
understanding social inequalities and ways to prevent them, there is much
interesting and useful work still to be done. For example, the following
questions may be of interest:

   - How are stereotypes of disadvantaged individuals perpetuated in social
   media?
   - How do differing levels of Internet access affect the presence and
   attitude of individuals online?
   - How has the distribution of poverty changed over time as American
   cities have grown, and how has this affected the impoverished population in
   a negative or positive way?

 These are by no means the only questions of interest, and are only
intended to give a rough idea of what might be an interesting topic to
explore for this challenge problem.
Submission

All submissions must be in the form of a 4-6 page single column paper with
a minimum font size of 10. Note that only the abstract will be included in
the proceedings, and thus should not conflict with any concurrent or future
submissions of this work to other venues. Submissions will be judged by a
based on their novelty, adherence to relevant social science literature,
and technical rigor.

All submissions must be made to our submission site,
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpgdc2015
Important Dates

   - Paper Submission January 20th, 2015
   - Winner Notification February 28th, 2015
   - SBP 2015 Conference March 31st – April 3rd, 2015

Prizes
*To Be Determined*

Last year, the winner received a cash prize as well as a travel
reimbursement to present their work at the conference. This year will
likely be much the same. We will update this portion when the prizes have
been finalized.
Example Datasets

We have provided some sample datasets to get contestants started on their
submissions. These datasets are merely intended to provide a starting
point, and are not required for the submission. Contestants are encouraged
to provide their own datasets for the community. All of the datasets that
follow are available on the SBP Grand Challenge website (
http://sbp-conference.org/challenge/):

   - *Ferguson Protests* - Tweets pertaining to 2014 protest activity in
   Ferguson, Missouri. Contains 1.1M Tweets 7-14 days after the first
   protests. We'll have Tweet IDs up for this dataset within two weeks.
   - *Census Data* - The US Census department provides an API (
   http://www.census.gov/developers/) to quickly access large volumes of
   census data.
   - *Gamergate* - Tweets pertaining to the Gamergate scandal collected by
   Andy Baio for his article about the incident (
   http://bit.ly/medium-gamergate).
   - *Social Computing Repository* - Contains data from a collection of
   social media sites including Digg, Foursquare, and Twitter. Data can be
   obtained from (http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/).

Questions

Please direct all questions to the SBP Grand Challenge Committee at
sbp-2015-grand-challenge-group at googlegroups.com


-- 
Kang Zhao, Ph.D.
Tippie College of Business
The University of Iowa

Website: http://www.kangzhao.net
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