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Citizen Science - Authentic Participation in Research

My slide deck from ALN2012 in October 2012 http://sloanconsortium.org/

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Transcript

  1. Citizen Science Authentic Participation in Research Arfon Smith @arfon

  2. Crowdsourcing Volunteer Computing Citizen Science PPSR / CBSR

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  14. 700,000 Images

  15. 20,000 Users

  16. 40,000,000 Inspections

  17. Awesome

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  20. http://www.novacelestia.com

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  28. More anticlockwise galaxies? Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793)

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  30. 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper

  31. 0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD

  32. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS

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  36. 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

  37. 170,000 volunteers

  38. 60,000,000 analyses

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  44. (it works)

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  46. better than the professionals

  47. More anticlockwise galaxies? Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793)

  48. www.maniacworld.com

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  58. Credit: Simon Tokumine http://is.gd/oldww1

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  73. 680,000 volunteers

  74. 300,000,000 analyses

  75. Motivations

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  79. 1,000,000,000,000 1 trillion hours

  80. Spectrum of cognitive surplus

  81. 70,000,000 Classifications Ethics of Citizen Science?

  82. Social Contract

  83. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3.

    Don’t waste people’s time

  84. Why citizen science?

  85. Scale (Measurable) Accuracy Education Serendipity

  86. Known knowns Unknown unknowns Known unknowns

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  93. 70,000,000 Classifications Community-led research

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  97. SDSS HST Starforming pea Narrow-line Seyfert pea

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  101. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3.

    Don’t waste people’s time
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  108. 0 25,000,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 100,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS ?

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  110. Galaxy Zoo Supernovae

  111. Reference New Difference

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  119. Future

  120. “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

  121. Engagement

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  125. Thanks [email protected] @arfon