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Citizen Science - Authentic Participation in Research
Arfon Smith
October 12, 2012
Education
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Citizen Science - Authentic Participation in Research
My slide deck from ALN2012 in October 2012
http://sloanconsortium.org/
Arfon Smith
October 12, 2012
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Transcript
Citizen Science Authentic Participation in Research Arfon Smith @arfon
Crowdsourcing Volunteer Computing Citizen Science PPSR / CBSR
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700,000 Images
20,000 Users
40,000,000 Inspections
Awesome
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http://www.novacelestia.com
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More anticlockwise galaxies? Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793)
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12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Classifications per hour Hours 1 Kevin months Fukugita et al. 2007
170,000 volunteers
60,000,000 analyses
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(it works)
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better than the professionals
More anticlockwise galaxies? Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793)
www.maniacworld.com
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Credit: Simon Tokumine http://is.gd/oldww1
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680,000 volunteers
300,000,000 analyses
Motivations
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1,000,000,000,000 1 trillion hours
Spectrum of cognitive surplus
70,000,000 Classifications Ethics of Citizen Science?
Social Contract
1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3.
Don’t waste people’s time
Why citizen science?
Scale (Measurable) Accuracy Education Serendipity
Known knowns Unknown unknowns Known unknowns
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70,000,000 Classifications Community-led research
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SDSS HST Starforming pea Narrow-line Seyfert pea
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1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3.
Don’t waste people’s time
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Galaxy Zoo Supernovae
Reference New Difference
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Future
“These people are not doing the work of scientists, they
are doing the work of scientific instruments.” David Weinberger, Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard
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Thanks arfon@zooniverse.org @arfon