Zooniverse research (2016-2017 archive): Difference between revisions
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** Suggested projects included: GalaxyZoo2, PlanetHunters, Snapshot Serengeti, SpaceWarps. | ** Suggested projects included: GalaxyZoo2, PlanetHunters, Snapshot Serengeti, SpaceWarps. | ||
** Take notes about the kinds of interactions you observe with an eye towards which ones might embody different leadership/management practices and styles (start w. Zhu et al's "shared leadership" categories and build from there) that could lead to different volunteer behaviors. | ** Take notes about the kinds of interactions you observe with an eye towards which ones might embody different leadership/management practices and styles (start w. Zhu et al's "shared leadership" categories and build from there) that could lead to different volunteer behaviors. | ||
* reading and lit review | * reading and lit review from Zotero directory | ||
== Pending Action Items == | == Pending Action Items == | ||
Revision as of 21:52, 4 April 2016
Playground for Jim, Darren, and Aaron to build up a project analyzing volunteer management in the Zooniverse.
Action items for next meeting
- Read Best Practices Guide (all sections) for Zooniverse Project Builder.
- Keep doing classifications to familiarize with projects.
- Find a structured/methodical way to read a bunch of talk/forum interactions between Science Team members and volunteers.
- Suggested projects included: GalaxyZoo2, PlanetHunters, Snapshot Serengeti, SpaceWarps.
- Take notes about the kinds of interactions you observe with an eye towards which ones might embody different leadership/management practices and styles (start w. Zhu et al's "shared leadership" categories and build from there) that could lead to different volunteer behaviors.
- reading and lit review from Zotero directory
Pending Action Items
- Build out planning document draft based on Aaron's rough rationale for the project.
- More reading
- volunteer engagement
- leadership
- community management
- citizen science
- Kevin Crowston
- Oesterlund
- Andrea Wiggins
- Rob Simpson
- Chris Lintott (academic director of zooniverse)
Meeting logs
04-04-16: talked about predictive probabilities for unrelated projects
Goals
Spring 2016
- Fully developed planning document including a thorough analysis plan.
- A cleaned up dataset (variables and measures that we can model; not just raw database records).
