Zooniverse - SEDS 2014

Part of panel on open data and citizen science at SEDS SpaceVision 2014 in Durham, NC. Some slides borrowed from/inspired by Rob Simpson (@ttfnrob).

Transcript

1. Z O O N I V E R S E : S C I E N T I F I C R E S E A R C H W I T H 1 . 2 M I L L I O N O F Y O U R C L O S E S T F R I E N D S S PA C E V I S I O N 2 0 1 4 K Y L E W I L L E T T U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I N N E S O TA
2. S C A L E S O F S C I E N T I F I C D ATA There are so, so many galaxies … Hogg & Blanton (2005)
3. galaxyzoo.org
4. S C I E N C E W I T H C R O W D S O U R C I N G 9.0 9.5 10.0 10.5 11.0 11.5 Stellar Mass log(M/M ) 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 0.0(u r) colour . .
5. S E R E N D I P I T Y Keel et al. (2012)
6. Asteroid Zoo: identify new asteroids that are potential targets for interplanetary mining 6,000 volunteers asteroidzoo.org images searched 1.3 million
7. I N T E R A C T I O N A N D C O L L A B O R AT I O N
8. I N T E R A C T I O N A N D C O L L A B O R AT I O N
9. C O G N I T I V E S U R P L U S 100 million hours total to create Wikipedia 200 billion hours per year spent watching TV by US adults
10. T H E F U T U R E DATA Machine- learning Crowd
11. zooniverse.org Dr. Kyle Willett - @kwwillett