ZooCon 2013 Talk

Summary of the current Zooniverse projects, with some usage stats and a peek at upcoming projects. A public talk given at the 2013 ZooCon gathering of Zooniverse volunteers in Oxford.

1. Robert Simpson - University of Oxford
2. Where Are We Going?
3. Where Are We Going?
4. Where Are We Going?
5. Where Are We Now?
9. 16 years
10. 16 years Every HOUR
13. 2 months
14. 2 months Every day
15. 850k worldwide 15 projects
16. 52 years
18. Whale FM NfN Bat Detective Cyclone Center Ancient Lives Moon Zoo Solar Stormwatch Old Weather Andromeda SETI Live Cell Slider Space Warps Seafloor 8.3% MWP 7.5% Serengeti 7.9% Planet Four 10% Galaxy Zoo 17% Planet Hunters 27% Distribution of 52 years worth of human attention across the Zooniverse, June 2012 to June 2013 zooniverse.org
21. papers 54
22. The Milky Way Project: measure and map our galaxy in infrared 40,000 volunteers milkywayproject.org drawings 3,000,000
23. The Andromeda Project: Explore high-resolution Hubble data to find star clusters in M31, and galaxies beyond it. 22 days andromedaproject.org classifications 1,000,000+
24. Whale FM: Listen to whale calls to decode their language 15,000 volunteers whale.fm classifications 200,000
25. Bat Detective: classify bat sounds to help us understand them better 15,000 volunteers batdetective.org classifications 250,000
26. Seafloor Explorer: Help explore the ocean floor 25,000 volunteers seafloorexplorer.org classifications 1.5 million
27. Snapshot Serengeti: identify and describe animals in Serengeti National Park 20,000 volunteers snapshotserengeti.org classifications 7,000,000
28. Tools for Citizen Scientists
29. Tools for Citizen Scientists
36. Rise of the Machines!
38. Machine Learning Crowd
42. What’s Next?
43. ‘WISE Zoo’ Classify and sort protostars in infrared data. ‘WISE Zoo’
44. Worm Watch: contribute to medical science by monitoring the motion of teeny tiny worms Worm Watch
46. ‘Kelp Zoo’: Monitoring the extent of kelp forests... FROM SPACE! ‘Kelp Zoo’
47. A new sunspot project to measure the complexity of active regions on the Sun New Sunspot Project
48. 850k worldwide 15 projects
49. zooniverse.org Robert Simpson - @orbitingfrog