The Changing Face of Citizen Science

Presentation at http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/europeanatech/

1. Image: www.smartdestinations.com THE CHANGING FACE OF CITIZEN SCIENCE Arfon Smith
2. Citizen science Volunteer Computing Crowdsourcing
11. http://www.novacelestia.com
14. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor
15. 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper
16. 0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD
17. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS
18. 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
19. 170,000 Volunteers
20. 50,000,000 Classifications
21. Crowdsourced Science?
26. (it works)
27. Better than professionals
28. Clean Super Clean
45. https://github.com/zooniverse/Scribe
46. Motivations
54. https://github.com/zooniverse/Talk
55. 475,000 Volunteers
56. 300,000,000 Classifications
58. Ethics of crowdsourcing
59. Social contract
60. 1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3. Don’t waste people’s time
62. Why crowdsource science?
63. Serendipity (Measurable) Accuracy Scale Education
65. Future
70. 0 25,000,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 100,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS ?
71. Expensive Noisy Classifier agents (Machine & Human)
72. What are humans good at?
73. Training Training
76. Preference learning
78. Bar strength
80. Bar strength
81. Classifier combination
83. ?
86. Thanks arfon@zooniverse.org Twitter: @arfon