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Robert Simpson • Oxford University Robert Simpson • Oxford University Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 GALAXY ZOO: SUPERNOVAE GALAXY ZOO: MERGERS SOLAR STORMWATCH GALAXY ZOO: HUBBLE MOON ZOO OLD WEATHER THE MILKY WAY PROJECT PLANET HUNTERS Friday, 24 June 2011 40,000,000 CLASSIFICATIONS 320,000 VOLUNTEERS www.galaxyzoo.org Friday, 24 June 2011 2,150,000 IMAGES 3.1 SWITZERLANDS 50,000 SQUARE MILES 60,000 378,000 VOLUNTEERS DISNEYLANDS www.moonzoo.org Friday, 24 June 2011 17,000 VOLUNTEERS 490,000 PAGES www.oldweather.org Friday, 24 June 2011 24,000 VOLUNTEERS 380,000 BUBBLES 1,500,000 DRAWINGS www.milkywayproject.org Friday, 24 June 2011 3,000,000 LIGHT CURVES 30,000 VOLUNTEERS 69 PLANETS www.planethunters.org Friday, 24 June 2011 COMMUNITY The Zooniverse is equivalent to 4 Wembley Stadiums or 9 Wrigley Fields! We are now more than twice the size of the world’s largest stadium in North Korea! Friday, 24 June 2011 COMMUNITY There are only 11 armies in the world that are larger than the Zooniverse! (China, USA, India, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Vietnam) Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 COGNITIVE SURPLUS 1 FACEBOOK-HR = 43,000 MAN-HRS 1 ANGRY BIRDS-HR = 3.3 MILLION MAN-HRS Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 DATA Extended WW1 Period 280 vessels 750,000 log pages 65% complete Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 USER STATISTICS Average of 26 pages per user 99% users follow <10 ships Some users have transcribed 10,000+ pages Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 9000 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 CLASSIFICATIONS PER HOUR 2000 1000 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 HOURS SINCE LAUNCH Friday, 24 June 2011 SOME RESULTS Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 Friday, 24 June 2011 “I transcribed the date my father was born. Strangely moving...” “On August 23rd, 1921 a group of sailors from the Foxglove, then in Hong Kong, went to the cinema. I myself an going to see The King’s Speech. As wierd as it sounds, this makes them even more real to me” Friday, 24 June 2011 “At the end of October last year I started on Old Weather, running Northern Patrols on HMS Andes, my first date being 8th November 1915. Being a flighty sort I jumped ship... I have welcomed King Olav on board HMS Hood in Chrispana (now Oslo where I worked for a pme). I travelled with it on its circumnavigaon. I have worked the rivers of old China, sailed the waters of the Far East Staon, and supported a fleet of submarines out of Hong Kong. I have searched for Zeppelins off the coast of Norfolk and patrolled the west coast of Chile (another place I have lived) and South America. And now I end up in 7th November on HMS Andes again, aer 43,572 weather enpres. It feels like that should be the end. But it probably won’t be...” Friday, 24 June 2011 www.oldweather.org/voyages Friday, 24 June 2011 THE TREASURE MAP Friday, 24 June 2011 THE TREASURE MAP Friday, 24 June 2011 THE TREASURE MAP Friday, 24 June 2011 ADMIRAL TUPPER Friday, 24 June 2011 CURRENTLY RUNNING AT 23 FTE DATA IS 65% COMPLETE MORE DATA IN THE WORKS Friday, 24 June 2011.
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