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February 07, 2013
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Big Data and Citizen Science

Talk on space, modern astronomy and the big data problem/opportunity.

Talk aimed at ages 16-18, originally included videos.

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February 07, 2013
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  13. 200 GB/night

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    12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Classifications per hour Hours
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  21. 16 years

  22. 16 years Every day!

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  24. “Cognitive Surplus” - Clay Shirky

  25. The Zooniverse Some of our projects...

  26. Galaxy Zoo: help astronomers classify galaxies 400,000 volunteers galaxyzoo.org classifications

    200m
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  28. Cardamone)et)al.)2009,)arXiv)0907.4155

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  36. Planet Hunters: find and mark planets 200,000 volunteers planethunters.org classifications

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  38. PH1b (Oct 2012) PH2b (Jan 2013)

  39. The Milky Way Project: measure and map our galaxy in

    infrared 35,000 volunteers milkywayproject.org drawings 3,000,000
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  44. Intelligent Websites Rise of the machines!

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  47. Machine Learning Crowd

  48. Teaching computers to see bubbles Milky Way Project

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  51. 2,000 PB/night

  52. 2,000 PB/night 2,000,000,000 GB/night

  53. zooniverse.org Robert Simpson [email protected] @orbitingfrog