Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Zooniverse: Web-Scale Citizen Science

Avatar for Arfon Smith Arfon Smith
November 08, 2012
Science
0
340

Zooniverse: Web-Scale Citizen Science

Avatar for Arfon Smith

Arfon Smith

November 08, 2012
Tweet

More Decks by Arfon Smith

See All by Arfon Smith
Why Generative AI makes collaborative, versioned science more important than ever
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
45
Generative AI is here: What are we going to do about it?
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
150
Five principles for building generative AI products
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
130
Five principles for building generative AI products
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
210
Learning from NASA's commitment to open
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
98
JOSS rOpenSci presentation
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
290
Five ways to use GitHub to automate scholarly work
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
140
Journal of Open Source Software: Bot-assisted community peer-review
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
130
A vision for the future of astronomical archives
Avatar for Arfon Smith arfon
0
160

Other Decks in Science

See All in Science
（メタ）科学コミュニケーターからみたAI for Scienceの同床異夢
Avatar for Ryuichi Maruyama rmaruy
0
160
2025-05-31-pycon_italia
Avatar for Sofie Van Landeghem sofievl
0
140
(2025) Balade en cyclotomie
Avatar for Roger Mansuy mansuy
0
450
Hakonwa-Quaternion
Avatar for Kenji Hiranabe hiranabe
1
170
データベース11: 正規化(1/2) - 望ましくない関係スキーマ
Avatar for Y. Yamamoto trycycle
PRO
0
1.1k
A Guide to Academic Writing Using Generative AI - A Workshop
Avatar for Kenji Saito ks91
PRO
0
210
データベース04: SQL (1/3) 単純質問 & 集約演算
Avatar for Y. Yamamoto trycycle
PRO
0
1.1k
デジタルアーカイブの教育利用促進を目指したメタデータLOD基盤に関する研究 / Research on a Metadata LOD Platform for Promoting Educational Uses of Digital Archives
Avatar for Masao Takaku masao
0
150
力学系から見た現代的な機械学習
Avatar for Han Bao hanbao
3
3.9k
AIに仕事を奪われる
最初の医師たちへ
Avatar for iKora128 ikora128
0
1k
サイコロで理解する原子核崩壊と拡散現象 〜単純化されたモデルで本質を理解する〜
Avatar for Syota-Sasaki syotasasaki593876
0
150
機械学習 - K-means & 階層的クラスタリング
Avatar for Y. Yamamoto trycycle
PRO
0
1.2k

Featured

See All Featured
Neural Spatial Audio Processing for Sound Field Analysis and Control
Avatar for NII S. Koyama's Lab skoyamalab
0
170
My Coaching Mixtape
Avatar for mlcsv mlcsv
0
48
Noah Learner - AI + Me: how we built a GSC Bulk Export data pipeline
Avatar for Tech SEO Connect techseoconnect
PRO
0
110
Designing for Timeless Needs
Avatar for Cassini Nazir cassininazir
0
130
Tell your own story through comics
Avatar for letsgokoyo letsgokoyo
1
810
Raft: Consensus for Rubyists
Avatar for Patrick Van Stee vanstee
141
7.3k
Visualization
Avatar for Eitan Lees eitanlees
150
17k
Why Our Code Smells
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
340
58k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
Avatar for Gregor Martynus gr2m
96
14k
How to Get Subject Matter Experts Bought In and Actively Contributing to SEO & PR Initiatives.
Avatar for Liv Day livdayseo
0
67
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
Avatar for Vicent Martí tanoku
273
27k
Site-Speed That Sticks
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
13
1.1k

Transcript

  1. Zooniverse: Web-Scale Citizen Science Arfon Smith @arfon

  2. Crowdsourcing Volunteer Computing Citizen Science PPSR / CBSR

  3. None
  4. None
  5. None
  6. None
  7. None

  8. 1,000,000,000,000 1 trillion hours

  9. Spectrum of cognitive surplus

  10. None

  11. http://www.novacelestia.com

  12. None
  13. None
  14. None
  15. None
  16. None

  17. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Professor

  18. 0 2,500 5,000 7,500 10,000 Professor Paper

  19. 0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,000 Professor Paper PhD

  20. 0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 Professor Paper PhD SDSS

  21. None

  22. 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

  23. 700,000 volunteers

  24. 250,000,000 analyses

  25. None
  26. None
  27. None
  28. None
  29. None

  30. (it works)

  31. None
  32. None
  33. None
  34. None
  35. None
  36. None
  37. None
  38. None
  39. None
  40. None
  41. None
  42. None

  43. 70,000,000 Classifications Ethics of Citizen Science?

  44. Social Contract

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

    Don’t waste people’s time
  46. None
  47. None
  48. None
  49. None
  50. None
  51. None
  52. None
  53. None

  54. Why citizen science?

  55. Scale (Measurable) Accuracy Education Serendipity

  56. None
  57. None
  58. None

  59. Cosmology Gallery

  60. Citizen Science Sunday

  61. None

  62. Thanks [email protected] @arfon