Complex Systems Summer School 2013-Projects & Working Groups: Difference between revisions
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[[David_Masad | I'd]] love to play around with the new [http:// | [[David_Masad | I'd]] love to play around with the new [http://gdelt.utdallas.edu/ Global Data on Events, Location and Tone (GDELT)] dataset, which has 200+ million timestamped and geocoded political events. Here's a [http://ideas.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/10/what_can_we_learn_from_the_last_200_million_things_that_happened_in_the_world writeup of it in Foreign Policy] -- David | ||
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Project proposals
GDELT
I'd love to play around with the new Global Data on Events, Location and Tone (GDELT) dataset, which has 200+ million timestamped and geocoded political events. Here's a writeup of it in Foreign Policy -- David
Research Network Formation
I'd be interested in collecting some data from CSSS attendants. Some kind of way to study social network formation. -- Todd
My new crazy idea, inspired by these guys, is doing something with computer vision. Maybe there's a way to photograph sitting arrangements and extract data from that? -- David
Self-consistent networks for socio-economic institutions
Pablo and I started to discuss a project where we could use cross-impact balances (CIB) to investigate the implications of alternative hypotheses for interrelationships between various socio-economic/political factors. We began discussing this from the perspective of testing competing political economic theories to see what types of institutions (e.g. styles and stability of governance) would be self-consistent according to the theories. However, I would be open to other topics, including research questions inspired by GDELT. If there is interest to learn more about the CIB technique, I could put together a tutorial. --Vanessa