Citizen Science Lightning Talk - Cascadia Ruby 2014

Transcript

1. Citizen Science! Joel Stimson Software Engineer, kotisdesign.com @joelstimson stim371

2. What is it? • Amateurs helping professional scientists • Gather

   data • Clean data • Prove that you’re better than a computer • Get your name on papers • Contribute to Science

3. Folding (old school) • Seti@home • Folding@home • LHC data

   Tons of projects aggregated by BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)

4. Stardust @ Home (http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) • Find space dust • Understand

   the formation of the solar system 2 years catching spacedust need help finding tracks Aerogel for capturing stellar grains

5. Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/) • classify galaxies • map planets • digitize

   weather data • classify whale songs http://static.zooniverse.org/www.galaxyzoo.org/images/gz_slider1.jpg

6. American Association for Variable Star Observers (http://www.aavso.org/) • gather brightness

   data • support stellar research • get outside! http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_cores/images/ss_cyg.jpg