Nokia 2012 - Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia

Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia
Website: http://research.nokia.com/mdc
Nokia Research Center Lausanne, together with its academic partners IDIAP and EPFL, ran a data collection campaign in 2009 ? 2010, wherein contextual data was collected continuously using smartphones of the nearly 200 participating individuals. Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia (MDC) releases this comprehensive and relatively unexplored data set for the research community.
The data pertaining to MDC was released on January 8th to more than 500 individual participants for more than 400 challenge tasks. The participants are affiliated with hundreds of different universities and research institutes world-wide, with many leading universities in the field being involved with the challenge. The Challenge tasks are divided between Open and Dedicated Tracks. In the Open Track, participants were able to freely define the research questions. The tasks in the Dedicated Track are related to prediction (of semantic labels of places, of next destinations of users and of demographic attributes of the population) based on the mobile data.
Selected entries will be invited to participate in this workshop organized in conjunction with the Pervasive 2012 conference. The workshop will be distributed across two days, June 18-19. It will include oral presentations as well as posters and demos.
Organisers: Juha Laurila and Daniel Gatica-Perez