Arts Faculty Announcement

Megan Bean megan.bean at wici.ca
Thu Feb 28 11:54:39 EST 2013 

Hi,

My name is Megan, and I'm the administrative assistant for the Waterloo
Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), under the auspices of the
School of Environment Enterprise and Design (SEED) here at UW. We're
hosting a data challenge with a $10,000 cash prize, which is open to
faculty and students alike.

I've been given this email address by Stephanie Bromley, in order to
request the following email notice be circulated through the Arts Faculty
mailing list.

I would be grateful for your help in this matter.

Regards,

Megan Bean




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that promotes the rigorous transdisciplinary study of innovation within—and
the resilient and beneficial transformation of—the complex adaptive systems
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     WICI Data Challenge
         Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 12 PM (ET)

 Value of Challenge: CDN$10,000

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      The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) is
seeking tools and methods that improve the exploration, analysis, and
visualization of complex-systems data.

With each passing year, researchers and policymakers have access to
steadily more data on the behavior and causal structure of complex systems
such as urban land markets, global financial networks, epidemic disease,
and Earth’s climate. They need tools and methods to effectively evaluate
and interpret these data and present the results in accessible formats to a
broad range of stakeholders. But the development of such tools and methods
has not kept up with the data’s soaring availability. WICI is launching a
$10,000 challenge prize to help address this emerging need.

Tools of potential interest to WICI include (but are not limited to) those
that:

   - Identify and visualize critical transitions and bifurcations in
   nonlinear systems;
   - Provide interactive graphical representation of catastrophe manifolds;
   - Provide meta-analysis of—and visualize the data generated
   by—computational models of coupled human-natural systems;
   - Visualize and analyze social capital and its relationship to social
   networks;
   - Explore the use of movement and dance as visualization tools for
   complex systems
   - Develop visualization platforms for stakeholder and participatory
   decision making
   - Develop scenario models and gaming visualizations of imagined futures
   produced though mass-collaborative online social technologies.

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The winner will be granted a CDN$10,000 cash value prize and invited to
present at WICI’s major public colloquium on the topic of data
visualization in the fall of 2013. Runners-up may also be invited to
participate in this colloquium and/or have their entries archived on and
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Due to the collaborative and open-source nature of this effort, a condition
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This license allows the community to use and adapt the design while
ensuring that the designer receives full attribution. The winner must also
agree to share any data, software, or other scientific tools developed as a
part of this challenge with the public via the WICI website. All entries
will be subject to confidential peer-review evaluation. Unless submitter(s)
recommend otherwise, WICI will hold entries that do not win in confidence.

Entries should include:

1. A written document or video*** presenting an overview of the
submission.  This item should describe:

   - the substantive challenge that the tool addresses in the exploration,
   analysis, and/or visualization of complex-system data;
   - the tool’s innovative contribution relative to other tools;
   - the tool’s algorithmic or conceptual foundations;
   - the data (real or simulated) to be analyzed;
   - a demonstration of the tool that is understandable to complex-systems
   scientists from a range of disciplines; and, if relevant,
   - a statement of the tool’s possible broader impact, including its
   potential to advance complex-systems education and outreach

2. the dataset used for the tool’s application;
3. an executable of the tool, along with either the source code or an
explanation of the program and its algorithms sufficient to ensure
replicability;
4. a statement that the product is the original work of the submitter(s)
and that the submitter(s) have the right to submit it as an open-source
tool should an award be granted; and, optionally,
5. additional graphics, videos, documentation, and publications directly
relevant to the submission.

** Note:* Written submissions should not exceed 2000 words, citations
excluded, and should be double spaced using 12-point font. Videos should be
no more than 15 minutes long and should be accompanied by a separate list
of works cited.

Entries should be submitted by *Friday March 15 2013* at *12PM Eastern
Time*on the WICI
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An entry will not be considered complete until all five of the above files,
each tagged with the name(s) of the submitter(s), are uploaded via the
links to MediaFire provided on the foregoing website. Results will be
announced in late April 2013. Individuals and/or groups selected for the
WICI colloquium will then be assigned to present their proposals at a time
convenient to their schedule.

Any questions regarding this Challenge should be directed to WICI Associate
Director, Professor Dawn Cassandra Parker (dcparker at uwaterloo.ca) or the
WICI Administrative Assistant, Ms. Megan Bean (megan.bean at wici.ca).

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