Nokia Research Center Lausanne and its academic Swiss partners have recently completed a data collection campaign in the Lake Geneva region. Over a year of data from smartphones from almost 200 participants was collected, and now the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (MDC) releases the Lausanne data for the research community.
The challenge provides an opportunity to analyze a comprehensive and relatively unexplored data set including rich social and geographic information. Selected entries will be invited to participate in a workshop organized in conjunction with the Pervasive 2012 conference.
The MDC comprises two alternative tracks: Open Track and Dedicated Track.
The Open Track provides an opportunity to approach the data set from an exploratory perspective. You can propose your own Challenge task, which matches with your own research interests and background. For example, you can discover hidden behavioural patterns through statistical techniques, focus on more methodological contributions related to data mining or develop novel ways for data visualization.
The Dedicated Track presents the possibility to take on up to three alternative concrete tasks to solve, with properly defined training and test sets, and evaluation measures that will be used to assess and rank all the contributions. The tasks are related to prediction of the semantic labels of the places, next destinations of the users and demographic attributes from the mobile data.
For more information about the schedule and how to participate, please check out the dedicated Mobile Data Challenge page on the Nokia Research Center website.
