Important Dates:
Abstract: 15th Jan 2015
2-page submission: 15th Feb 2015
Notification of acceptance: 28th Feb 2015
Final presentation: 19th Mar 2015
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CODS 2015 Research Challenge
A City Traffic Dashboard based on Social Network Data
About the Challenge:
Imagine Indian Government has made you responsible for leveraging
Internet and Social Media portals for better monitoring and management
of traffic in Indian cities. You know that the popular social network
portals are daily fraught with traffic issues from Indian roads in the
form of text, image and video. Further, city traffic authorities have
started to feed into these portals furnishing them with information
about traffic movement (or the lack of that). However these desperate
pieces of information spanning over timelines of innumerable Indian
commuters have not been harnessed to the effective monitoring and
management of traffic.
You would like to design an application which can give real insights
from the fast flowing streaming data on these platforms - what is
working good and what is not; which areas are facing severe traffic
problems; what are the most pressing traffic related problems citizens
in different cities are complaining about (e.g. wrong_parking,
heavy_vehicles, auto_refusal etc.); how things have changed after
additional traffic management people have been introduced across
cities last month and so on. A city-based as well as a national
interactive dashboard with great visualization would help you to
easily interact with the data. It will enable you to get views at
different levels upto actual text/image/video as well as temporal
analysis of data.
The CODS 2015 Research Challenge is giving you an opportunity to
design and develop innovative software application (or dashboard) for
city traffic management using publicly available social network data.
Technical Task:
Design and develop a software application (or dashboard) for
analysing, monitoring and comparing traffic issues in different Indian
cities based on relevant interactions on Internet based social network
portals. Unlike common data analysis challenges, this is an open ended
and exploratory task.
Data:
Given the exploratory nature of this challenge we are fine with the
participants to decide and use any relevant social network portals as
their data source(s). At the minimum, they need to use the Facebook
pages of Traffic Authorities of following cities - the posts (and
other details) from these pages can be crawled using Facebook Graph
API
o Bangalore - https://www.facebook.com/BangaloreTrafficPolice
o Chennai - https://www.facebook.com/chennaitrafficpolice
o Kolkata - https://www.facebook.com/KolkataTrafficPolice
o New Delhi -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Delhi-TrafficPolice/117817371573308
· Participants are free to include any publicly accessible
information of the following nature.
o Traffic Authorities Facebook pages of other Indian cities.
o Information from timeline (newsfeed, profile etc.) of relevant
public or private organizations in any social network portal including
Facebook and Twitter.
o Relevant posts (messages, photos, videos etc.) by individuals on
any social network portal.
o Related information such as news articles, weather data,
population data, vehicle data etc.
Rules:
· Only publicly available data can be used and should be cited
in the submissions. No proprietary data source which does not offer
free access to all can be used.
· Participants have to develop the software applications
entirely by themselves. They can use open-source software packages
with appropriate citations in their submissions.
· Each group cannot have more than 4-members who do not
necessarily have to be from the same organization/institution.
Submission and Important Dates:
Interested participants are encouraged to get started immediately –
following are important dates.
1. 15th January, 2015: Each team has to submit a plain-text
abstract of length less than 500 words describing their application,
features and data sources used. This submission will be used for
reviewer assignment only for the 2-page paper due after one month– no
notification will be sent based on this submission.
2. 15th February, 2015: Each team has to submit a 2-page paper
describing their system and data analysis techniques.
a. The submission should be formatted in ACM proceedings format,
using one of the templates available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Templates are
available in Word and LaTeX (version 2e). For the LaTeX formats, you
may use either the standard style or the SIG-alternate style.
b. We encourage and will give preference to submissions with
(links to) web-based demonstration, video, screenshots, wireframe
designs, and mock-ups of developed applications.
3. 28th February, 2015: Shortlisted teams will be notified for
participation in CODS Research Challenge session.
4. 19th March, 2015: CODS Research Challenge presentation and
demonstration session followed by announcement of winners.
Evaluation:
The panel is to going to evaluate each submission based on multiple
criteria such as:
· Insights: Nature of insights obtained based on historical
data - quantity, quality and surprise factor
· Real-time: Ability to ingest future data in real-time and
update insights and visualization
· Techniques: Novelty of data processing, mining and learning
techniques used
· Visualization: Visual appeal and user interaction features
of dashboard
Award:
· Shortlisted teams based on abstract and paper submission
will be eligible to present and demonstrate their application to CODS
Conference participants.
· The winner and first two runner ups (chosen by an expert
panel and conference attendees) will get cash award for INR 30,000,
20,000 and 15,000 respectively.
· The top-3 teams will be invited to write a 4-page paper to
be included in ACM CODS proceedings.
Contact:
· Shourya Roy shourya.roy@xerox.com
· Ramasuri Narayanam ramasurn@in.ibm.com
Abstract: 15th Jan 2015
2-page submission: 15th Feb 2015
Notification of acceptance: 28th Feb 2015
Final presentation: 19th Mar 2015
-----------------------
CODS 2015 Research Challenge
A City Traffic Dashboard based on Social Network Data
About the Challenge:
Imagine Indian Government has made you responsible for leveraging
Internet and Social Media portals for better monitoring and management
of traffic in Indian cities. You know that the popular social network
portals are daily fraught with traffic issues from Indian roads in the
form of text, image and video. Further, city traffic authorities have
started to feed into these portals furnishing them with information
about traffic movement (or the lack of that). However these desperate
pieces of information spanning over timelines of innumerable Indian
commuters have not been harnessed to the effective monitoring and
management of traffic.
You would like to design an application which can give real insights
from the fast flowing streaming data on these platforms - what is
working good and what is not; which areas are facing severe traffic
problems; what are the most pressing traffic related problems citizens
in different cities are complaining about (e.g. wrong_parking,
heavy_vehicles, auto_refusal etc.); how things have changed after
additional traffic management people have been introduced across
cities last month and so on. A city-based as well as a national
interactive dashboard with great visualization would help you to
easily interact with the data. It will enable you to get views at
different levels upto actual text/image/video as well as temporal
analysis of data.
The CODS 2015 Research Challenge is giving you an opportunity to
design and develop innovative software application (or dashboard) for
city traffic management using publicly available social network data.
Technical Task:
Design and develop a software application (or dashboard) for
analysing, monitoring and comparing traffic issues in different Indian
cities based on relevant interactions on Internet based social network
portals. Unlike common data analysis challenges, this is an open ended
and exploratory task.
Data:
Given the exploratory nature of this challenge we are fine with the
participants to decide and use any relevant social network portals as
their data source(s). At the minimum, they need to use the Facebook
pages of Traffic Authorities of following cities - the posts (and
other details) from these pages can be crawled using Facebook Graph
API
o Bangalore - https://www.facebook.com/BangaloreTrafficPolice
o Chennai - https://www.facebook.com/chennaitrafficpolice
o Kolkata - https://www.facebook.com/KolkataTrafficPolice
o New Delhi -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Delhi-TrafficPolice/117817371573308
· Participants are free to include any publicly accessible
information of the following nature.
o Traffic Authorities Facebook pages of other Indian cities.
o Information from timeline (newsfeed, profile etc.) of relevant
public or private organizations in any social network portal including
Facebook and Twitter.
o Relevant posts (messages, photos, videos etc.) by individuals on
any social network portal.
o Related information such as news articles, weather data,
population data, vehicle data etc.
Rules:
· Only publicly available data can be used and should be cited
in the submissions. No proprietary data source which does not offer
free access to all can be used.
· Participants have to develop the software applications
entirely by themselves. They can use open-source software packages
with appropriate citations in their submissions.
· Each group cannot have more than 4-members who do not
necessarily have to be from the same organization/institution.
Submission and Important Dates:
Interested participants are encouraged to get started immediately –
following are important dates.
1. 15th January, 2015: Each team has to submit a plain-text
abstract of length less than 500 words describing their application,
features and data sources used. This submission will be used for
reviewer assignment only for the 2-page paper due after one month– no
notification will be sent based on this submission.
2. 15th February, 2015: Each team has to submit a 2-page paper
describing their system and data analysis techniques.
a. The submission should be formatted in ACM proceedings format,
using one of the templates available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Templates are
available in Word and LaTeX (version 2e). For the LaTeX formats, you
may use either the standard style or the SIG-alternate style.
b. We encourage and will give preference to submissions with
(links to) web-based demonstration, video, screenshots, wireframe
designs, and mock-ups of developed applications.
3. 28th February, 2015: Shortlisted teams will be notified for
participation in CODS Research Challenge session.
4. 19th March, 2015: CODS Research Challenge presentation and
demonstration session followed by announcement of winners.
Evaluation:
The panel is to going to evaluate each submission based on multiple
criteria such as:
· Insights: Nature of insights obtained based on historical
data - quantity, quality and surprise factor
· Real-time: Ability to ingest future data in real-time and
update insights and visualization
· Techniques: Novelty of data processing, mining and learning
techniques used
· Visualization: Visual appeal and user interaction features
of dashboard
Award:
· Shortlisted teams based on abstract and paper submission
will be eligible to present and demonstrate their application to CODS
Conference participants.
· The winner and first two runner ups (chosen by an expert
panel and conference attendees) will get cash award for INR 30,000,
20,000 and 15,000 respectively.
· The top-3 teams will be invited to write a 4-page paper to
be included in ACM CODS proceedings.
Contact:
· Shourya Roy shourya.roy@xerox.com
· Ramasuri Narayanam ramasurn@in.ibm.com
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