Citizen Science - Authentic Participation in Research

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

Transcript

1. Citizen Science Authentic Participation in Research Arfon Smith @arfon
2. Crowdsourcing Volunteer Computing Citizen Science PPSR / CBSR
14. 700,000 Images
15. 20,000 Users
16. 40,000,000 Inspections
17. Awesome
20. http://www.novacelestia.com
28. More anticlockwise galaxies? Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793)
29. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor
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
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
44. (it works)
46. better than the professionals
47. More anticlockwise galaxies? Longo (astro-ph/0707.3793)
48. www.maniacworld.com
58. Credit: Simon Tokumine http://is.gd/oldww1
73. 680,000 volunteers
74. 300,000,000 analyses
75. Motivations
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
93. 70,000,000 Classifications Community-led research
97. SDSS HST Starforming pea Narrow-line Seyfert pea
101. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3. Don’t waste people’s time
108. 0 25,000,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 100,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS ?
110. Galaxy Zoo Supernovae
111. Reference New Difference
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
125. Thanks arfon@zooniverse.org @arfon