Innovations in technology and social media have now made it possible for citizen scientists (volunteer enthusiasts) to participate in expanding the scope and reach of modern research through crowdsourcing endeavors. Leave your mark on the advancement of science by participating in any one of these emerging projects.
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How neurons use crowdsourcing to make decisions
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When many individual neurons collect data, how do they reach a unanimous decision? New research from a collective computation group suggests a two-phase process.
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Crowdsourcing meets science with new animal tracking technology
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Researchers have developed a way to track endangered species using smartphones and drones, and you can help them with that work.
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Crowdsourced coral: Scientists get creative in order to find reef 'hope spots'
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Citizen scientists and actual scientists can gather important data about the world's oceans.
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Crowdsourcing A Practical Indoor GPS
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Scientists in South Korea have developed an indoor locating technology using crowdsourced fingerprints from smartphones.
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'EVE Online' is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets
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Seek out new life and new civilizations through a mini-game called "Project Discovery."
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'EVE Online' is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets
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Seek out new life and new civilizations through a mini-game called "Project Discovery."
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Crowdsourced Science Finds Four Candidates For Planet Nine
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A team of 60,000 volunteers analyzed nearly 5 million objects in 3 days in an effort to find Planet Nine.
Pluto will always be my Planet 9....
NASA crowdsourcing search for Planet Nine — and citizen scientists are making some rare finds
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In just three days, about 21,000 volunteers sifted through more than 100,000 images and classified more than 5 million objects — work that would take an astronomy PhD student four years
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Dig for victory: badger buries a whole cow and eats steak for a month ow.ly/AI0k30arsqt
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NASA Wants the Public to Log In to Help Find Planet 9
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Citizen scientists can examine photos to help discover a new planet, which recent evidence suggests is hiding at the edge of the solar system
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'EVE Online' is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets
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Seek out new life and new civilizations through a mini-game called "Project Discovery."
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Scientists on Twitter Crowdsourcing List of Every Farting Animal | Nerdist
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Everyone Poops is arguably the most important, most informative children's book ever written. Going to the bathroom is a weird thing to comprehend for a kid. You put delicious food in your mouth, and then later....YOU DON'T NEED THIS EXPLAINED. But knowing that every other person as well as other an...
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Researchers Crowdsource For Novel Malarial Drugs
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Once the domain of IT, researchers have adopted a crowdsourced approach to finding alternatives to artemisinin for malarial treatment.
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How SpaceX will crowdsource the investigation of its rocket explosion
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Following the SpaceX explosion on Sept. 1, Elon Musk is asking the public and NASA to help him figure it out. How common is scientific crowdsourcing – and is it a step forward for research?
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Crowdsourcing can help create better science tests cheaper
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A group of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysicshas found a way for schools, professors, textbook publishers, and educational researchers to check the quality of their test questions that turns out to be both fast and cheap. It invokes the power of crowdsourcing.
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Crowdsourcing Can Help Create Better Science Tests Cheaper
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When it comes to developing test questions, there's the ordinary way and the fancy way. The ordinary way is to just make up questions and put them on the test. However, this can lead to questions that are misleading, confusing, or simply don't test for the knowledge you're trying to measure.
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With a $10 million gift from Marc and Lynne Benioff, UCSB launches the Benioff Ocean Initiative to study and solve ocean issues
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Four things you should know about citizen science | GovInsider
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GI explains why it is important for the public sector.
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Data-Crowdsourcing Projects Are Great, but Citizen Science Can Be So Much More
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The earthquake near Washington, D.C., five years ago in August 2011—the one that damaged the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral but had lit ...
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Indianapolis Enlists Volunteers In Crowdsourced Bee-Search Project
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Indianapolis is enlisting its residents to help count bees, butterflies and other bugs as part of a crowdsourcing science initiative. The “City-Wide
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Crowdsourcing better data on small-scale fisheries
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Many of the world’s fish are caught in small-scale fisheries that lack data about the health of fish populations, giving managers very limited information to base management decisions on. In turn, most of these fisheries appear to be under-performing with respect to conservation, the amount of f
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Tapping crowd-sourced data unearths a trove of depression genes
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Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites - the first ever -- linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many play a role in sculpting the developing brain. But -- in a twist -- the researchers didn't have to sequence anyone's genes! Instead, they analyzed data already shared by people wh...
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Scientists are searching for Antarctic seals using satellite imagery—and you can help
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Look for Weddell seals and contribute to science in your pajamas.
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Why Science Should Be Crowdsourced — Sometimes — Pacific Standard
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Crowds are excellent at finding answers to problems, but we still need scientists to work at defining the questions.
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Crowdsourcing platform makes public gene expression data more accessible
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Scientists have developed a free online platform that uses a crowdsourcing approach to make public gene expression data more accessible to biomedical researchers without computational expertise.
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The Ice Bucket Challenge Directly Funded A Major Genetic Breakthrough In ALS Research
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The Ice Bucket Challenge of 2014, often dismissed as lazy “slacktivism,” has directly funded an important gene discovery related to the neurodegenerative d
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Crowdsourcing contest using data from people, dogs advances epileptic seizure forecasting
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It might sound like a riddle: What do you get when you combine one online contest, two patients, five dogs and 654 data scientists?
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Science Game Lab to be a central hub for scientists and gamers
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Scripps Research is partnering with game studio Playmatics to create a Science Game Lab portal for games that will support citizen science.
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Crowd-sourced marine research continues - Mount Desert Islander
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BAR HARBOR — Researchers at the MDI Biological Laboratory are seeking the help of citizen scientists across the Maine coast in gathering data about eelgras
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Gamification leads to era of armchair scientists
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The citizen scientists aren’t necessarily qualified to operate scientific gizmos and gadgets, but via gamification they can be taught to analyze images and design molecules, thereby contributing to the fight against tuberculosis from their armchair.
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USDA Blog » USDA Engages Public through Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science
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Recently, USDA participated in the White House launch of the Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science (CCS) Toolkit. By providing federal employees with information about developing CCS activities, the Toolkit will eventually allow the Federal government to design more programs that ask citizens to...
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'Crowd Control,' our crowdsourced science fiction novel, starts here
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Read the first installment of "Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," a novel written and edited by CNET readers around the globe.
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Crowdsourcing algorithms aim to lift people from poverty
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Crowdsourcing algorithms developed by a research team at the University of Illinois are helping lift people out of poverty—one perfectly placed job at a time. In collaboration with Samasource, rese…
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Andy Weir on crowdsourcing novels and what The Martian shares with Doctor Who
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The Martian author Andy Weir joins Blastr for Book Month to discuss his next book, balancing realism with storytelling, and if he recommends self-publishing to aspiring writers.
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Humans best computers in atom-snatching game
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Online gamers use their intuition for dynamics—not spatial pattern recognition—to win
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Measurement Lab explores the current state of the Internet
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M-Lab is the largest open Internet data project powered by crowdsourcing measurements of people's Internet connections from around the world.
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Help to Crowdfund Some Amazing, Scientifically Accurate Dinosaur Toys | Nerdist
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I know what you may be thinking. Is this a toy line based off of those Fox ADHD cartoons where they figure out the grossest sex and death stuff animals do and apply it to one of your favorite cartoon characters? And the answer is no. Basically, in this context it just means "dinosaurs with feathers…
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Crowdsourcing control: Don’t make it a free for all, warn researchers
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With momentum building for crowdsourcing and funding as a platform for nutrition research, scientists warn that greater control may be needed to safeguard the quality and validity of such studies.
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Crowdsourced research project to help scientists better understand tuberculosis
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A crowdsourced research project led by IBM's World Community Grid and scientists at the University of Nottingham aims to help scientists to understand tuberculosis.
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Digging up an Exceptionally Large Dinosaur Graveyard
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We are excavating Utah's Hanksville Burpee
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Crowdsourcing from Data Science Bowl Result in Heart Disease Diagnosis Algorithm - DATAVERSITY
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by Angela Guess A new article out of the companies reports, “With the close of the second annual Data Science Bowl, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle proved yet again that crowdsourced solutions can be used to solve some of our world’s most complex problems. This year, the focus was on heart health – a…
Tuberculosis to be tackled using crowd-sourced computer power
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The University of Nottingham is launching a new project to tackle tuberculosis, using IBM's World Community Grid -- one of world's most powerful, virtual, super computers.
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Bad Research Methods or Just Bad Science?
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Experts challenge the experts behind renowned research of psychology studies; Harvard professors claim psychology study had errors.
New project to enhance kakapo breeding
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Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce yesterday launched Kākāpō 125 – a joint New Zealand Genomics Limited (NZGL) and Genetics Otago project that will sequence all the genomes of the kākāpō species of birds.
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EVE Online update adds crowdsourcing science minigame
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EVE Online players can now while away their idle hours by helping advance medical science. This week’s EVE Online update, Project Discovery, adds in a very cool minigame. By playing the game, players will assist in the compilation of the Human Prote…
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Combating the sinister side of crowdsourcing
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Computer science researchers at Utah State University have secured a major grant for an ongoing study on crowdsource manipulation. This growing and lucrative corner of the Internet impacts everything from e-commerce sites to social media and threatens to undermine even basic online trustworthiness.
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9 Reasons To Crowdsource Data Science Projects - InformationWeek
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The data science talent shortage has some companies thinking outside the box. Even if your company employs a formidable data science team, you would likely still benefit from third-party ideas or solutions. Data science competitions and other forms of crowdsourcing offer viable means of advancing th…
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How the Smithsonian Institution Is Crowdsourcing History
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It’s the end of the day, you’ve worked hard, and now you’re home and it’s time to relax. So you open up your laptop and settle in to transcribe some bee...
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'Citizen scientists' use drones to map El Nino flooding
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Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline's changing face.
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‘Academic crowdsourcing’ allows lecturers to share ideas
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Two networks in Australia and the US backed by the same start-up technology are blazing a new teaching trail
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Crowdsourcing the Universe: How Citizen Scientists are Driving Discovery (Kavli Roundtable)
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Gravitational lenses are the magnifying glasses of deep space astronomy.
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Citizen science is skyrocketing in popularity. Not just among participants (of which there are millions), but also in its visibility in academic journals. A new article in PLOS ONE by Ria Follett and Vladimir Strezov tracks trends in academic articles containing the term “citizen science.” The autho…
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AI and crowdsourcing – Can they solve the world’s problems? - Modern Readers
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TweetComputers may be becoming smarter and smarter with each passing day, but many people aren’t willing to let artificial intelligence take over completely. In fact, scientists from Cornell University and the Human Computation Institute believe that relying on computers won’t cut it; crowdsourcing…
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Building an archive on the Moon (and doing science, too)
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In theory, an extraterrestrial data archive will pay for some unique science.
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Geek Out: Crowdsourcing Data Science With Kaggle
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Companies that need help sorting data turn to Kaggle, a new platform that leverages the statistician crowd via competitions. Learn more!
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6 Ways to Be a Citizen Scientist From the Comfort of Your Couch - Citizen Science Salon
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Take a break from online shopping and sharpen that brain by contributing a few minutes to science. Below, our editors present six projects in need of your help. (And really, you know you’re going to abandon that online shopping cart, anyway!) Visit the SciStarter Project Finder for 1100 more oppor…
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Crowdsourcing in the name of science - Shelburne News
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By Cameron Kovach Have you ever photographed nature, watched birds at a feeder, or noticed butterflies in your garden? Whether you realize it or not, you may be a scientist … or at least a citizen scientist. Every day, Vermonters make observations of the natural world that can advance our global und…
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Obtaining high-quality labels by crowdsourcing | Science Codex
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In the era of big data, data can often be obtained abundantly and cheaply, but providing labels for these large-scale data has always been a challenge because labeling data is expensive and time-consuming. For example, if we want to train a model for
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Virtual Universe to Install 'Gamer Science' Project : DNews
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EVE Online is about to launch a real-world crowdsourcing science project within the game mechanic, using a huge player base to help characterize proteins in the human body.
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The Crowdsourcing Site That Wants to Pool Our Genomes
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A new non-profit site aims to open up genetic data for scientific research.
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Daines, Coons present bill to push use of crowdsourcing, citizen science
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Government could save money by utilizing resource of public knowledge
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How Citizen Scientists Are Revolutionizing Data Collection
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This week, The White House hosted a live-webcast forum on citizen science and crowdsourcing, indicating the scale at which open science and innovation is becoming the new reality in data science. Next week, four dynamic teams using crowdsourcing technology from the Congo Basin to the Peruvian Rainfo…
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EPA Wants to Tap the Crowd for Research Help
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This builds on OSTP\'s “Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit,\" released last week.
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Coop’s Scoop: Federal Citizen Science Tool Kit on next #CitSciChat - CitizenSci
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Senator Chris Coons (Delaware) has made it unambiguously clear that federal agencies should embrace crowdsourcing and citizen science. Senator Coons introduced the Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act, the first bill to clarify that all military branches, commissions, and executive branch … Continu…
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USDA Blog » USDA is Making Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Possible through STEM and Collaboration
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Today, USDA will engage with citizen-science professionals, researchers, and stakeholders from local, state, Federal, and Tribal governments, as well as representatives of the academic, non-profits, and private sector to celebrate citizen science at the first-ever White House citizen science forum o…
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Innovation as a Science: Predicting the Value of Ideas - Daily Crowdsource
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For all the collective rush to figure out what innovation is and what doing it means for your business, it really boils down to this: we want to come up with great ideas, be able to predict their value, and figure out what systems need to be in place for us to do so.
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Building and Sustaining Critical Mass Engagement In Crowdsourcing
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The white paper analyzes the key motivators of public and employee engagement by demystifying crowdsourcing participation through behavioral science.
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Winners Announced for Crowdsourcing and Data Sharing Competition to Drive Innovation in Prostate...
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Industry leaders in biomedical research, oncology data sharing and computational science announced the winners of an innovative research challenge for
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Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Metadata Workshop Summary | Wilson Center
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for ScholarsRonald Reagan Building and International Trade CenterOne Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027T 202-691-4000
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THE names of the planets reflect the history of the Earth. Five—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—were known in antiquity. The titles they now bear were...
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People-Powered Data Visualization
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Through crowdsourcing and citizen science projects, the general public is making profound contributions to research. Can data visualization help make sense of this wealth of new information?
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Neuroscientists in Toronto have shown that crowdsourcing brain data with hundreds of adults in a short period of time could be a new frontier in neuroscience and lead to new insights about the brain.
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Neuroscientists in Toronto have shown that crowdsourcing brain data with hundreds of adults in a short period of time could be a new frontier in neuroscience and lead to new insights about the brain.
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Can You Solve The Mystery Of This Medieval Sword?
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The British Library is calling on the public to help solve a mystery nearly 800 years in the making: Just what is written on this sword? The double-edged sword, which is part of an exhibition on the
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My Retina Tracker Is Crowdsourcing Blindness Research
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There are hundreds of genetic mutations that could end up causing blindness, and very few patients for each mutation. My Retina Tracker is attempting to crowdsource as much information as possible to cure previously little-researched blindness-related diseases.
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The Science of Naming Pluto Surface Features: Crowdsourcing
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NASA’s New Horizons team unloaded the burden of naming extraordinary geological features and is sharing it with enthusiasts around the world.
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You Can Now Crowdsource Your Medical Diagnoses, But Should You?
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The hive mind is no substitute for a doctor
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NASA Wants Your Help to Classify Weird Mars Terrain
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Members of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) science team are asking the public to help them categorize strange features near the Red Planet's south pole for further study and analysis.
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NASA Partners with InnoCentive to Crowdsource Innovation Initiatives | Business Wire
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InnoCentive Inc., the pioneer in crowdsourced innovation and Challenge Driven InnovationTM announced they were chosen to collaborate with NASA on thei
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Biochemists launch crowdsourcing site to combat bad data
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Chemical probes used in pharma studies get TripAdvisor-like website
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Crowdsourcing Capitalists: How Duolingo's Founders Offered Free Education To Millions
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Duolingo teaches English to millions for free, as the nonprofit Khan Academy does with math. But its founders want to make real money so the service lasts.
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NASA turns to crowdsourcing for help building future space projects
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is turning to a powerful source in solving the problems faced by astronauts: the public at large.
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Crowdsourcing the Serengeti: how citizen scientists classified millions of photos from home
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Sometimes the best way to deal with mountains of data is to turn to the public for help. That's what Snapshot Serengeti did to classify millions of photos from savanna camera traps in Tanzania.
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Scientists Crowdsource the Brain to Help Unlock Its Secrets | Big Think
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Researchers observe neurofeedback speeds, the likes of which a lab has never seen.
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Ateneo launches crowdsourcing app for real-time disaster-response
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The Ateneo De Manila University on Tuesday launched its eBayanihan project, a mobile and web-based response system that allows users to share information about disasters in real-time.
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Black rhino genome will be sequenced before it’s too late, thanks to crowdfunding
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Just over 100 years ago, there were more than one million black rhinos roaming the African savannah. But the harsh realities of poaching and habitat loss have left only 5,055 of the animals on the planet. Now, thanks to science fans around the...
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How crowdsourcing revealed amazing images of Serengeti wildlife
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University of Minnesota doctoral candidate Alexandra Swanson had no good way of sorting through the 1.2 million photos snapped by her hidden cameras in the Serengeti, so she turned to citizen scientists.
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Xeno-canto: crowdsourcing the world's birdsongs | @GrrlScientist
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GrrlScientist: Xeno-canto, which hosts the largest online collection of bird sound recordings in the world, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary
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Crowdsourced computational expertise to advance the social good
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William 'Buddy' Christopher has a problem. As commissioner of Boston's Inspectional Services Department, he is responsible for enforcing health regulations at the city's 3,043 restaurants. But regularly getting to all of them is a tall order for his team of 18 inspectors.
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NASA's New Horizon Probe Could Send Crowdsourced Data to Aliens
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The man responsible for the "golden record" on Voyager now wants to beam crowdsourced data to the New Horizons probe to take with it as it leaves the solar system.
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China and Crowdsourcing: The Rise of a New Green Generation? | New Security Beat
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The blog of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, with contributions from the Maternal Health Initiative, China Environment Forum, and more
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Marcus Shingles provides a Masterclass in Crowdsourcing
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If you've never been exposed to Crowdsourcing, here's a treat. Marcus Shingles, is among the most knowledgeable worldwide in this rapidly expanding area.
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A Process Model for Crowdsourcing Design: A Case Study in Citizen Science - The Governance Lab @ NYU
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Chapter by Kazjon Grace et al in Design Computing and Cognition ’14: “Crowdsourcing design has been applied in various areas of graphic design, software design, and product design. This paper draws on those experiences and research in diversity, creativity and motivation to present a process model f…
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Vancouver's fusion power startup has a new strategy: crowdsourcing | BC Business
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THE#BCBIZDAILY Plus, giant diamonds unearthed in Botswana and B.C.'s digital media sector gets frustrated Crowdsourcing high-tech challenges
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Have Allosaurus, Will Travel - Fossil Tales From the West
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The rock record is full of stories about life's history. Help me buy a field vehicle so that I can tell these prehistoric tales.
There are ways to nullify this, but as with studies, the efficacy of crowd-sourcing is in the design of the project.
Crowdsourced projects and skewed results: Research findings on participation and social...
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2015 and 2011 papers in PNAS that highlight dynamics within crowdsourcing projects and provide notes of caution around factors that can produce weaker or even flawed results.
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Biotech Wired – NASA steps up crowdsourcing initiative for Mars mission
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With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration looking to get serious about a manned mission to mars by the 2030s, the US space agency has stepped up its crowdsourcing initiative to help overcome some of the trip’s challenges.
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Crowdsourcing The Human Telescope | Techdirt
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One of the most interesting realizations in recent years is that done right, massive, open collaborations are not just an efficient way of working, but they scale in a way that can take us to entirely new levels. A good example -- and perhaps the...
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Crowdsourced tool for depression beats conventional self-help technique - ScienceBlog.com
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March 30, 2015 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Researchers at MIT and Northwestern University have developed a new peer-to-peer networking tool that enables sufferers of anxiety and depression to build …
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How Did Ebola Volunteers Know Where To Go In Liberia? Crowdsourcing!
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Kpetermeni Siakor was 900 miles from home when Ebola struck. But with special software, he helped direct volunteers and supplies to the right spots.
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Getting a Push Notification on Your Cell Phone? It Could Be Warning You About an Earthquake
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Sophisticated GPS sensors in the average mobile device could be harnessed for seismic early warning systems around the world
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If you want to think outside the box, ask someone outside the box for their thoughts.
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UGA researchers to use crowdsourcing to track harmful algal blooms in Georgia’s lakes | UGA Today
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CyanoTRACKER is a ‘neighborhood watch system for Georgia waters’
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Flight MH370 search gets crowdsourced help from scientists
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Eighteen scientists and mathematicians found each other online, put their collective expertise together and calculated the most likely place the Malaysian Airlines plane crashed.
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Thirty new fly species found in LA's urban sprawl - life - 27 March 2015 - New Scientist
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A citizen science project in Los Angeles has discovered 30 previously unknown species of fly
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Citizen Scientists Are Helping NASA Map the Aurora Like Never Before
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The aurora borealis that took place on St. Patrick's day was spectacular, but aside from being the strongest geomagnetic storm in a decade, there's another reason it was special. It was the first time that thousands of citizen scientists tweeted about the aurora to help NASA construct a detailed glo…
Well, technically its been around since 1857 when the Philological Society of London crowdsourced entries for the future Oxford English Dictionary.
Quirky Facts You Didn’t Know About Crowdsourcing
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Jo Sabin, marketing communications manager of DesignCrowd, a logo, web and graphic design marketplace, writes in to shed light on some of the less known facts about crowdsourcing.
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In True Citizen Science Fashion, Crowdsourcing a Bibliography - CitizenSci
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Books on a library shelf (CC0 Public Domain) Record of the first bibliography can be traced back to the Ancient Library of Alexandria. The former Macedonia
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How Amazon's crowdsourcing forum, Mechanical Turk, could be destroying academic research
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"Turkers" are people who are essentially making their living by filling out questionnaires all day long, day after, month after month, year after year.
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Foundation uses crowdsourcing to raise funds to acquire Canaan Valley Institute from NOAA
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia - The National Science Foundation is raising money to acquire the Canaan Valley Institute building and operate it as a regional STEM hub.
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OHMS: Enhancing Oral History Online | | Saving StoriesSaving Stories
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The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History created a web-based, system called OHMS to enhance access to oral history online.
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Detecting Potentially Dangerous Asteroids & Comets
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The Planetary Society recognizes the threat that asteroids and comets--known as Near Earth Objects, or NEOs--represent. While an asteroid strike could have devastating effects, the good news is that an asteroid impact is the only natural disaster that is completely preventable. Our most important pr…
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Do you have it in you? Join the Flu Near You project to help track flu activity in the United States.
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Scientists Use Thousands of Crowdsourced Images to Study Genetics of the Brain
technologyreview.com
DNA data and medical images combined to find clues to brain size.
Hollywood is soliciting ideas for a new TV series that will star a MacGyver like women engineer.
Hollywood Is Crowdsourcing for the Next ‘MacGyver'
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Hollywood is reaching out for your help to create the next “MacGyver” (or, for the younger future engineers, the next “CSI”).
Opportunity to submit video stories about being inspired by women in science. Deadline is quickly approaching.
Crowdsourcing Women in Science and Engineering | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network
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I could statistic you to death about how women are still underrepresented in science and engineering, but let me just give you this one about what ...
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RLI 277 9 Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription
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RLI 277 9 Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription Nicole Saylor, Head, Digital Library Services, University of Iowa Libraries Jen Wolfe, Metadata Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries Cmeasure, and rectify archival materials. Social media tools are makingrowdsourci…
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CrowdFlower Predicts Data Science Trends for 2015 [Infographic]
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Crowdsourcing and big data go well together. So it’s hardly surprising that the crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower recently put out an infographic predicting where data science is headed in 2015. Check it out after the jump!
Overly long article highlighting why it is important to have safeguards built into your computer based crowdsourcing projects if you want them to be at all effective.
How a lone hacker shredded the myth of crowdsourcing
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High-tech analysis of a 2011 DARPA Challenge suggests that far from being wise, crowds can’t be trusted
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Crowdsourcing yields a more accurate picture of rainfall and snowfall
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It's the season of dramatic weather, when everyone from the National Weather Service to farmers and insurers monitor predictions of weather conditions—and assessments of where severe weather and its impacts are greatest. In this environment, a citizen science project called CoCoRaHS—the Community ..…
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Bring It On Home: The Oxford English Dictionary
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The New York Public Library subscribes to hundreds of online research databases and electronic resources. While these resources are accessible at NYPL's research centers and branch libraries, many of them are also available to Library cardholders remotely.
If you are seeing robins show up in your neighborhood, take photos and upload here to help track their migration.
Robins | Citizen Scientists Track American Robin Migration | Journey North
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Welcome to Journey North's American Robin Migration Tracking Project. Beginning in February, citizen scientists across North America are invited to report their first robin of spring, waves of migrating robins, and the first robin song of spring. Please report these observations
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You can earn $13,000 a year selling your poop
www.washingtonpost.com
Yes, your feces are perhaps your greatest untapped monetary resource.
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Agencies' apps use crowdsourcing to gather data, provide services
federaltimes.com
Map the coastline? Report on the weather? Check mobile phone speeds? Agencies use crowdsourcing do to what they could not on their own.
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Making Use of 500,000 Researchers: Tales from the Zooniverse
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Zooniverse.org is the world's largest and most successful collection of online citizen science projects, and has enabled volunteers to classify more than a million galaxies, discover planets around other stars, transcribe more than a million pages of ships' logs and even sort through ancient papyri.…
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All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
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Users are generating that reality every day at The New York Public Library through two landmark crowdsourcing endeavors, What’s on the Menu? and Map Rectifier. The former enlists the public in the transcription of historical menus, and the latter allows users to “rectify” historical maps by overlayi…
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Collecting geomagnetic field data through crowd-sourcing
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Scientists at the National Geophysical Data Centre, Boulder, U.S., which is an affiliate of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, have come up with a novel way to crowd-source geomagnetic data for
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At a recent internal hacking event here, NYPL Labs developer Paul Beaudoin recruited me into an interesting project: transforming one of the library's 20,000 digitized historical maps into the three-dimensional world of the building game Minecraft.
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Crowdsourcing used in Genghis Khan tomb search
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Researchers from the University of California San Diego have written 'Crowdsourcing the Unknown: The Satellite Search for Genghis Khan,' published last month on PLOS ONE, the peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. Briefly, they charged an online crowd of volunteer participants with the chal…
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E. Howard Clock Orders Ledger Volume 91,554 ContributionsCan you help us review these ledgers which detail the sales of E. Howard Clock Company's timepieces?
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MicroPasts Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Archaeological Research
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MicroPasts, a platform developed by University College London (UCL) and the British Museum, is bringing together academic researchers and laymen interested in archaeology and history to help create high-quality data and attempt to uncover secrets of the p
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Crowdsourcing with mobile apps brings 'big data' to psychological research
eurekalert.org
A fast-paced game app where players pretend they are baggage screening officers operating airport X-ray scanners has provided researchers with billions of pieces of data in record time, according to an article published by the American Psychological Association.
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Prof. mixes business with science
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A Florida State Professor mixes business methods with scientific research.
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IBM Crowdsourcing Computing Power to Help Ebola Research
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IBM's Softlayer cloud technology, World Community Grid is providing an aide in computing power to scientists researching cures to Ebola.
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Scientists turn to crowdsourcing for Ebola cure; link between sleep and cancer: health news
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Researchers hope to harness unused computer power to find a drug against Ebola and scientists at Virginia Tech identify a protein responsible for regulating the body's sleep cycle. The protein plays a role in cell division.
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Feds developing plan for crowdsourcing, citizen science
federaltimes.com
Open Innovation Toolkit will guide agencies on leveraging citizen involvement.
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UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs
phys.org
Phys.org Science News Wire : UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Phys.org staff.
Crowdsourcing Connects World of Work With World of Knowledge | SYS-CON MEDIA
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SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.
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Crowdsourcing project predicts progression of neurodegenerative disease
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A $50,000 award spurs innovation in the quest to better treat ALS patients
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