Galaxy Zoo Talk

I wonder who Brooke is referring to ... ? ;-)

  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    The source is "Where next for citizen science? Innovative uses for crowd sourcing", Streamed live on Jan 30, 2014:

    This seminar is part of the Oxford Martin School Hilary Term seminar series: Blurring the lines: the changing dynamics between man and machine

    Thanks to new technologies , citizen science has seen huge growth over the past decade, opening up important scientific research to the masses and harnessing the power of the crowd. Ranging from classifying new galaxies to monitoring wildlife in the Serengeti, the Zooniverse stable of citizen science projects led by Dr Chris Lintott has seen incredible success. But what does the future hold for citizen science -- does it have the power to help in real life situations such as disaster zones? And what are the implications when dealing with huge amounts of potentially sensitive data in real time?

    Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

    Here's what Brooke Simmons (who goes by the handle vrooje here) had to say, starting ~1h09m47s (no promise that the transcription is error-free!):

    And as an example, one of our ... in Galaxy Zoo and across actually many of our projects, there's one volunteer who is so involved that she's become a moderator on our forums and in our community, and she is in many ways more expert than I am at galaxy morphology, but she ...

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  • vrooje by vrooje admin, scientist

    I actually had more than one person in mind, each of whom fits that definition!

    However, perhaps the exact person doesn't matter -- as our moderators are each awesome and do amazing work. 😃

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