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jatorre
November 08, 2012
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How to discover a planet
Presentation by Javier de la Torre at Visualized Conference
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November 08, 2012
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Transcript
Javier de la Torre CEO at Vizzuality How to discover
a planet
October 15th, 2012
Image credit: Haven Ciguee/Yale
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Image credit: Dirk Terrell
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so how is the NASA doing? 2,321 Planet Candidates |
105 confirmed Planets
http://kepler.nasa.gov 2,321 Planet Candidates | 105 confirmed Planets
Visualization by Jer Thorp: https://github.com/blprnt/Kepler-Visualization 1236 exoplanet candidates
so this is perfect? not at all...
so after 6 months of data crunching Kepler release the
data there might be other things there...
algorithms finds what they have been trained to find there
might be other things there...
What about showing every single light curve to a person?
crowdsourcing - human computation
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http://www.planethunters.org/floor_splash
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http://www.keckobservatory.org/
Image credit: Haven Ciguee/Yale
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Log of HMS Invincible,1914-12-08
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May 1911
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You can become a captain!
burials a http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk
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1 WEEK MISSION 450+ VOLUNTEERS 15,000+ BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATIONS
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So, how do you get millions of boring tasks done?
Paying... motivating them playing them
Number of return visits Unique Users the amazingly dedicated *
immediate reward potential reward a good project *
The things that actually motivate them The things you think
motivate your users
Image credit: Haven Ciguee/Yale
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immediate reward potential reward a good project * Make it
cool Make it fun Make it matter
This Weekend!
Javier de la Torre @jatorre
[email protected]
Thanks!