Zooniverse - Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2014

The Zooniverse recently signed-up its millionth volunteer - in this talk I outline the origin and status of the platform, and some directions we want to take in the future.

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1. Robert Simpson University of Oxford
3. Kevin Schawinski
6. Classifications per Hour 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 Hours Since Launch 01 03 05 07 09 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47
7. Galaxy Zoo: help astronomers classify galaxies 400,000 volunteers galaxyzoo.org classifications 200m
11. 1M worldwide 20 projects zooniverse.org
12. live.zooniverse.org
13. years 50 zooniverse.org +
14. papers 60 zooniverse.org/publications +
16. The Milky Way Project: measure and map our galaxy in infrared 50,000 volunteers milkywayproject.org drawings 3,500,000
17. milkywayproject.org
18. Plankton Portal: tag various species of plankton to help us catalogue the oceans 5,000 volunteers planktonportal.org classifications 400,000
19. planktonportal.org
20. Planet Hunters: finding exoplanets in NASA Kepler data 250,000 volunteers planethunters.org transits 20,000,000
21. planethunters.org
22. Snapshot Serengeti: identify and describe animals in Serengeti National Park 30,000 volunteers snapshotserengeti.org classifications 10,000,000
23. snapshotserengeti.org
25. 200 billion hours a year Spent watching TV by US adults 100 million hours total to create Wikipedia Inspiration: David McCandless (Goggle Boxes, July 2010), Data: Clay Shirky (‘Cognitive Surplus’, 2010)
26. 16 years Every Hour
27. Cognitive Surplus - Clay Shirky, NYU
28. Serendipity
29. Cardamone)et)al.)2009,)arXiv)0907.4155 zooniverse.org/publications
32. Serendipity ...in the Zooniverse
33. Kelly Borden & Julie Feldt G08, Friday 11:40am
34. Rise of the Machines
36. Machine Learning Crowd DATA
37. We are the Borg Bots DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA ATA DA
38. The Future
39. translations.zooniverse.org
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41. DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA DATA cs-site.org DATA
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43. daily.zooniverse.org
44. zooniverse.org Robert Simpson - @orbitingfrog