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From social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises

The European Physical Journal Special Topics volume 195, Article number: 3 (2011) Cite this article

Abstract.

The purpose of this White Paper of the EU Support Action “Visioneer”(see www.visioneer.ethz.ch) is to address the following goals:

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    Develop strategies to quickly increase the objective knowledge about social and economic systems.

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    Describe requirements for efficient large-scale scientific data mining of anonymized social and economic data.

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    Formulate strategies how to collect stylized facts extracted from large data set.

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    Sketch ways how to successfully build up centers for computational social science.

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    Propose plans how to create centers for risk analysis and crisis forecasting.

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    Elaborate ethical standards regarding the storage, processing, evaluation, and publication of social and economic data.

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Helbing, D., Balietti, S. From social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 195, 3 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01401-8

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