https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01401-8
Review
From social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises
1 ETH Zurich, CLU, Clausiusstr. 50, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
2 Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
a e-mail: dhelbing@ethz.ch
Received:
16
October
2010
Revised:
21
March
2011
Published online:
30
May
2011
The purpose of this White Paper of the EU Support Action “Visioneer”(see www.visioneer.ethz.ch) is to address the following goals:
- 1.
Develop strategies to quickly increase the objective knowledge about social and economic systems.
- 2.
Describe requirements for efficient large-scale scientific data mining of anonymized social and economic data.
- 3.
Formulate strategies how to collect stylized facts extracted from large data set.
- 4.
Sketch ways how to successfully build up centers for computational social science.
- 5.
Propose plans how to create centers for risk analysis and crisis forecasting.
- 6.
Elaborate ethical standards regarding the storage, processing, evaluation, and publication of social and economic data.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2011
