Complex Systems Summer School 2014-Projects & Working Groups

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MITRE Data Sets

To access the data please contact Juniper. Here is a PDF that explains the datasets and gives some sample challenge questions. MITRE DATA PDF

Death in physical, biological and social systems

Firms, nation states, human beings and stars all die. Do the causes of "death" in physical, biological and social systems have something in common? If yes, what is it?

Fractal-like structures in economic data

In the 1960-70s Mandelbrot showed that some economic time series have fractal-like structures, i.e. they look the same at many time scales. The existence of these structures has been debated since. Do economic time series like S&P 500 index have fractal-like structures? If yes, how fractal-like are they?

Microbial Community Data Sets

The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) is a massively multidisciplinary effort to analyze microbial communities across the globe. The general premise is to characterize the Earth by environmental parameter space into different biomes and then explore these using samples currently available from researchers across the globe. All data sets are processed in the same way (DNA extraction, PCR primers, sequencing, bioinformatic processing), making them inter-comparable. You can explore these data sets (including some time series, and a bunch of spatial samplings) at the following link EMP Data If you have questions, please contact Sean Gibbons (sgibbons at uchicago dot edu).