{"id":5392,"date":"2013-11-22T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2013-11-22T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:30:14","slug":"citizen-science-in-astronomy-zooniverse-conference-taipai-taiwan-mar-3-7-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"“Citizen Science in Astronomy” – Zooniverse conference, Taipai, Taiwan, Mar.3-7.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Zooniverse<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0citizen science organization will hold the Citizen Science in Astronomy<\/a>\u00a0conference in Taipai, Taiwan in March 3-7, 2014:\u00a0Announcing the Citizen Science in Astronomy Workshop – Zooniverse<\/a><\/p>\n

Citizen science – the involvement of hundreds of thousands of people in the research process – is a radical response to the challenge of dealing with the greatly increased size of modern datasets. The combined assessment of many non-expert human classifiers with minimal training often equal or improves that of a trained expert and in many cases outperform the best automated algorithms. As astronomical surveys and observations have continued to grow towards the petabyte scale, online citizen science projects have proven quite successful in enlisting the general public to mine these rich datasets from searching for exoplanets to identifying gravitational lenses.<\/p>\n

The aim of this workshop is to bring together astronomers, computer scientists, and machine learning experts to focus on developing, for a citizen science approach to current and future astronomical datasets, new and improved data reduction techniques and algorithms to assess volunteer behavior and direct effort more efficiently. Such efforts are critical in coping with data from the next generation of experiments and instruments, including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Hyper-Suprime Cam (HSC), and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Zooniverse\u00a0\u00a0citizen science organization will hold the Citizen Science in Astronomy\u00a0conference in Taipai, Taiwan in March 3-7, 2014:\u00a0Announcing the Citizen Science in Astronomy Workshop – Zooniverse Citizen science – the involvement of hundreds of thousands of people in the research process – is a radical response to the challenge of dealing with the greatly increased … Continue reading “Citizen Science in Astronomy” – Zooniverse conference, Taipai, Taiwan, Mar.3-7.2013<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-events","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1oY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6726,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6726","url_meta":{"origin":5392,"position":0},"title":"Stephen Murphey of DIY Rocket Science on The Space Show + Citizen science workshop in Taiwan","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Stephen Murphey\u00a0of\u00a0DIY Rocket Science\u00a0was on The Space Show last week to talk about a number of topics related to public participation in space such as building cubesats and pocketqube sats, open source hardware, crowdfunding, 3D printing, high-altitude ballooning, and more :\u00a0Stephen Murphy, Friday, 2-28-14 - Thespaceshow's Blog === The\u00a0Institute of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Amateur\/Student Satellite"","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5193,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5193","url_meta":{"origin":5392,"position":1},"title":"Citizen Science: Moonometer, Moon Zoo Live, Planet Hunters and Zooniverse job ad","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Some citizen science news items: The\u00a0Moonometer\u00a0at the\u00a0Moon Zoo\u00a0project gives the latest count in the number of\u00a0\u00a0LRO\u00a0images classified by participants:\u00a0The Moonometer -Moon Zoo \u00a0Check out also the\u00a0Moon Zoo Live\u00a0page to see a real-time updated display of where the latest feature to be classified is located on the Moon and the location\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Exoplanets"","block_context":{"text":"Exoplanets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=46"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7325\/10671935903_b45ca16eb0_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6117,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6117","url_meta":{"origin":5392,"position":2},"title":"A sampling of citizen science at Zooniverse","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I scanned blogs of some of the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse\u00a0and\u00a0turned up this items: Lunar Launches of 2013 - Moon Zoo\u00a0- A review of recent lunar missions and a look at what is planned for the next couple of years. 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