Encouraging Data Sharing and Reuse in the Field of Collective Behavior through Hackathon-Style Collaborative Workshops

调查人员将汇集在集体和紧急行为领域工作的不同研究人员。集体和紧急行为是研究复杂的生物和社会系统，范围从细菌菌落到人类群体。黑客马拉松式的研讨会吸引研究人员围绕确定共享数据、交流数据分析方法和重用公开可用数据的最佳实践机制。调查人员建议在为期3天的活动期间，由2-5名参与者组成的小组在一个特定项目上进行一系列的两次研讨会。研讨会的一个目标是促进生物学、数据科学、数学、计算机科学和物理学研究人员之间的新颖合作，所有这些研究人员都对集体行为感兴趣。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The investigators will bring together diverse researchers who work in the field of collective and emergent behavior. Collective and emergent behavior is the study of complex biological and social systems, ranging from bacterial colonies to human groups. The hackathon-style workshop draws researchers around identifying best practice mechanisms for sharing data, communicating methods of data analysis, and reusing publicly available data. The investigators propose a series of two workshops where teams of 2-5 participants work on a specific project during the duration of the 3-day event. An objective of the workshop is to foster novel collaborations between researchers in biology, data science, mathematics, computer science and physics, all of whom have an interest in collective behavior.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.