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Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://wici.ca/new/resources/call-for-submissions/
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Sponsor/Award: |
WATERLOO INST COMPLEXITY & INNOVATION - WICI DATA CHALLENGE - 2013 COMPETITION |
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Grant Amount: |
$10,000 |
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Deadline: |
Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Mar 08, 2013
Sponsor's: Mar 15, 2013
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Subject Areas: |
Visualization Technologies |
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Description: |
The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) is seeking tools and methods that improve the exploration, analysis, and visualization of complex-systems data. Submissions will be accepted via the WICI Data Challenge website. 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.
Please see sponsor website for full submission requirements. |
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Application Details: |
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 technologiesEntries should be submitted by Friday March 15 2013 at 12PM Eastern Time on the WICI Data Challenge website. An entry will not be considered complete until all five required files, each tagged with the name(s) of the submitter(s), are uploaded via the links to MediaFire provided on the foregoing website.
Due to the collaborative and open-source nature of this effort, a condition of the award will be publication of the winning entry under a Creative Commons license. |
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NOTE: All Letters of Intent and Full Applications must be processed through Research Development & Services for institutional approval. Requests for Institutional approvals should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline. A ROLA Proposal (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean electronic approvals) is required for each submission. |
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Western Contacts: |
Russelo,Theresa M
Halbersma,Joseph David
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Sponsor Contacts: |
MARIA.LEGAULT@WICI.CA
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
200 UNIVERSITY AVE
ENVIRONMENT BLDG 3, RM 4273
WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada
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