Open Mic Science - May 7, 2012

A talk on crowdsourcing and Citizen Science. http://openmicscience.weebly.com/

Transcript

1. Most of the smartest people work for someone else D e e p a k S i n g h @ m n d o c i
3. “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else”
4. ?
5. buzzword bingo
6. “crowdsourcing”
7. “citizen science”
8. “social networks for scientists”
11. small things loosely coupled
12. ... one more thing
14. open data
15. ... but I’ve been collaborating since I was in grad school
16. not your adviser’s collaboration
17. The Wisdom of Crowds
22. The Polymath Project
23. Tim Gowers
25. Fields Medallist
26. http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/is-massively-collaborative-mathematics-possible/
27. social experiment
28. ideas/progress on his blog
29. comment section
31. time to solve problem #1?
32. 37 days
33. 27 people
35. Nucl. Acids Res. (2010) 38 (suppl 1): D633-D639
36. I'd also be remiss if I didn't also note the critical role online collaboration played in this effort. Of the seven coauthors on this paper, two I've met only once in real life, and two I've never met in person. We are spread over four cities, five organizations, and nine time zones. Initiating and executing this collaboration happened virtually entirely online, aided by the FriendFeed Life Scientists room and Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject at Wikipedia. It was an eye-opener in terms of how effective online collaboration can be done.
37. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki
38. Citizen Science
39. Citizen science is scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists. Formally, citizen science has been defined as "the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily avocational basis". Citizen science is sometimes called "public participation in scientific research." Source: Wikipedia
41. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=708
48. Credit: Arfon Smith
49. Credit: Arfon Smith yikes!!!
50. Credit: Arfon Smith
51. 475,000 volunteers 300,000,000 classifications
53. Credit: Arfon Smith
54. http://speakerdeck.com/u/arfon
55. in conclusion
56. science
57. not just for the pros
58. not just with people you know well
59. “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else”
60. collaborate & contribute
61. the tools and platforms exist
62. deepak@deepaksingh.net Twitter:@mndoci http://speakerdeck.com/u/mndoci http://deepaksingh.net Inspiration and ideas from Arfon Smith & Michael Nielsen Credit” Oberazzi under a CC-BY-NC-SA license