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What the Zooniverse Can Do For You

Chris Snyder

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~18 active projects850,000+ volunteers

500,000,000+ annotations

Online collection of citizen science projects

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What is Zooniverse-style citizen science?

Web-scale human data analysis

NOT- data collection- volunteer computing

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• Volunteers, not users.

• Contribute to real research

• Don’t waste people’s time

Social Contract

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Cognitive Surplus

People have a lot of free time!

Wikipedia

TV

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Power of the Crowd

• Accuracy

• Scale

• Serendipity

• Education

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Basic Terms and Workflow

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Simulations

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Tech

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AWS, MongoDB, Redis, Coffeescript, localStorage, cookies, SVG, HTML5 Canvas, EC2, Ruby on Rails API, S3, ELB,

Hadoop, ES6, Ubuntu, CSS3, Heroku, Clojure, etc..

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(and science!)

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Data Driven

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Tools

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Talk

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Tools

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Teach

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Groups

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SoonTM

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When is a subject complete?

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Who is the best person to look at this subject?

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How likely is someone to leave the site in the next five minutes?

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What task is this person best at?

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How well is this person performing compared to previous sessions?

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Thanks!

Chris Snydercs@zooniverse.org

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