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Arfon Smith
October 05, 2011
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The Changing Face of Citizen Science
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Image: www.smartdestinations.com THE CHANGING FACE OF CITIZEN SCIENCE Arfon Smith
Citizen science Volunteer Computing Crowdsourcing
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http://www.novacelestia.com
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0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor
0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper
0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD
0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS
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
170,000 Volunteers
50,000,000 Classifications
Crowdsourced Science?
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(it works)
Better than professionals
Clean Super Clean
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https://github.com/zooniverse/Scribe
Motivations
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https://github.com/zooniverse/Talk
475,000 Volunteers
300,000,000 Classifications
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Ethics of crowdsourcing
Social contract
1. Collaborators not users 2. Contribute to real research 3.
Don’t waste people’s time
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Why crowdsource science?
Serendipity (Measurable) Accuracy Scale Education
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Future
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0 25,000,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 100,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS ?
Expensive Noisy Classifier agents (Machine & Human)
What are humans good at?
Training Training
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Preference learning
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Thanks
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Twitter: @arfon