George Washington University,Washington DC, USA
(part of the SBP-BRiMS 2018 conference - July 10 – July 13, 2018)
More information on Challenge 1 Opiods.
More information on Challenge 2 Disinformation.
More information on Challenge - Videos 2018.
A strong entry generally has one or more of these components:
In addition, a strong entry should be well-written and provide some level of creativity in its use of or combination of data.
What to Submit
You need to submit 3 things - An extended abstract, A PDF of your poster, and A powerpoint promotion slide. All three of these will go in the on-line proceedings
Extended Abstract: A 2-page abstract describing the project. This should define:
A PDF of your poster: This will be put on line.
You are, however, responsible for printing and bringing your own poster to the conference. An easel will be provided, but not posterboard.
The poster should be either 4’x3’ or 3’x4’.
Promotion Slide
This is a single powerpoint slide. The purpose of this slide is to excite people to come to your poster. This slide will also be put on line. You will be given one minute to present this slide at the conference to encourage people to come and see your poster. This slide should contain:
When to Submit
Challenge Response Submission: 14-May-2018
At this point just send the short abstract.
Author Notification: 01-June-2018
Final Version Challenge Response Submission: 25-June 2018
At this point send the paper, the slide, and a PDF of the poster.
How to Submit
All challenge participants will need to submit these items:
What to Present
All entries will send at least one team member to SBP-BRiMS 2018 who will be registered for the conference
by the early registration deadline to present their poster in the evening poster session on Wednesday. The poster will be 4’x3’ or 3’x4’. Participants may bring in additional props to enhance their presentation.
On Wednesday at the end of the plenary session before lunch, the team spokesperson should be ready to present a 1 minute talk using the slide, to encourage people to come to their poster.
On Wednesday, each team will also do a short talk that will be video taped and made available describing their approach and solution. This vedo talk should be no more than 12 minutes.
Finally, the winning entry will give a short talk on the last day of the conference. This will be a 12 minute talk with 3 minutes for questions.
How entries will be judged
Entries will be judged by community voting at the poster session.
Who is eligible
Anyone with an interest in using this data to address a social or policy issue. Entries are accepted from single individuals or teams.
Suggestion: Participants may want to use Jupyter to demonstrate their code and results. Examples can be found here, Sample Jupyter Notebooks.
The final paper for the winning entry, for each of the two challenges, will be published in the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory – in the SBP-BRiMS 2018 special issue.
A member of the team that developed the winning entry will do a short presentation on either thursday or friday at the conference describing the response.
All questions and concerns can be sent to sbp-brims@andrew.cmu.edu
The submission website is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2018. Be sure to choose the Challenge track.