AAM Minneapolis 2012

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1. Zooniverse Citizen Science Dr Arfon Smith
2. Citizen science Volunteer Computing Crowdsourcing
4. Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793) finds an excess of anticlockwise spirals
7. http://www.novacelestia.com
8. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor
9. 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper
10. 0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD
11. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS
15. 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Classifications per hour Hours 1 Kevin months Fukugita et al. 2007
16. 175,000 Volunteers
17. 50,000,000 Classifications
18. Crowdsourced Science?
23. (it works)
27. Ethics of crowdsourcing
28. Social contract
29. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3. Don’t waste people’s time
31. arfon@zooniverse.org Twitter: @arfon