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.

Transcript

13. 200 GB/night
16. 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
21. 16 years
22. 16 years Every day!
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
28. Cardamone)et)al.)2009,)arXiv)0907.4155
36. Planet Hunters: find and mark planets 200,000 volunteers planethunters.org classifications 17m
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
44. Intelligent Websites Rise of the machines!
47. Machine Learning Crowd
48. Teaching computers to see bubbles Milky Way Project
51. 2,000 PB/night
52. 2,000 PB/night 2,000,000,000 GB/night
53. zooniverse.org Robert Simpson rob@zooniverse.org @orbitingfrog