Zooniverse research (2016-2017 archive)

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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
    • "why won't aliens talk to us?" ICWSM

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

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).