Which Zooniverse project did you choose? Would you recommend it to your classmates to join in or not and why?
Think about these questions: was it easy to use or confusing? were the tasks straightforward or difficult? was it interesting or too boring?
Think about these questions: was it easy to use or confusing? were the tasks straightforward or difficult? was it interesting or too boring?
The Zooniverse project I chose was Snapshot Safari, a project dedicated to assessing the populations of animals living on conversations in South Africa. I thought it was interesting and for a good cause, so if anyone had a few minutes to spare, helping out wouldn't be a bad idea. I found the instructions and task to be extremely easy and simplistic. You are shown a series of images and must simply click "yes," if there's a human, animal, or fire, or "no," if there's nothing there. It's very basic, but retains your attention because you get to see pictures of animals, like goats, zebras and deer. Some may find it boring, but I enjoyed it.
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-Dorian Kavadlo
The Zooniverse project that I chose was called Criminal Characters which is a project to reveal the untold stories about the lives of prisoners who committed crimes. I would recommend it to my classmates because it's a fascinating project and I thought that it was interesting to learn about the prisoners and what they did to get them landed in a goal. The tasks were easy to use and were pretty straight forward. You are shown someone's record and you fill out the questions asked like color of eyes, height, weight, etc... If the information was missing, you would type in Missing. I found it very interesting but it could be boring to those who aren't very interested in that kind of thing.
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-Jessica DeMoor
The Zooniverse project I chose was Anti-Slavery Manuscripts, where you were tasked with reading and transcribing abolitionist documents (letters, mostly) into easily-read typed English. I would recommend it, but only if you can survive the transcribing. Transcribing is never fun, and it's quite taxing. However, the content of these letters is intriguingly mundane. It's as if you're just hearing two people talk to each other, but these two people are from 150 years ago. I read a letter where a guy just talked about scheduling a political event and told his friend to avoid being to partisan and be politically independent. It was fascinating. It was pretty easy, both to do and understand, but it took a lot of time. I can understand if you get a real dud of a letter than this would be insufferable.
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-Wesley Henshaw
I choose the ¨radio galaxy zoo: LOFAR¨ project. I would not recommend this project to my classmates because it really wasn't that informative and didn't give any results so we really don´t know if the project was effective or not. other then that, learning about the telescope was easy, straight forward, but didn't really catch my attention.
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-Nyah E
I got attracted to the topic monkey health explorer because I got curious to know that what is the reason behind all these health issues among the monkeys. I would recommend it to my classmates as it was really interesting to know the cause behind it.
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Zooniverse project I chose is "Snapshot Molopo" and I would recommend it to my classmates to join in because it's very simple and interesting for anybody who is interested in animals. I thought this project at first was confusing but it turned out it's very simple to use and the tasks were straightforward. And personally this project was very interesting for me because like seeing animals.
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-Gyeom Kim
I chose the "Anti-Slavery Manuscripts." I would recommend it to my classmates because its challenging but it also doesn't require any math or anything so its easy logistically speaking. It was very easy to use and straight forward I didn't struggle with the site at all. It was a bit boring I won't lie but it wasn't too bad.
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-Gracey Bell
I chose the project "Gravity Spy" and it was a task where you identifies glitches in a graph. I thought it was a little interesting but it gets repetitive as a lot of the graph are very similar. It is a little interesting to first learn about though. It was a very straightforward task and although it wasn't mind-blowing it was engaging enough.
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-Nate Mercier
The Zooniverse project I choose was "Wild Mont-Blanc". The project aims to study the effects of climate change on animals in alpine environments. I thought the project covered an important cause and was interesting. The project was easy and the task was strait forward. Most of the work was just observing animals through camera traps. I though that the project was interesting.
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-Corey Ables
I chose "Snapshot Molopo." I really liked this project and would recommend it to my classmates, or anyone interested in animals. It was very informative, but easy to follow! I love animals, so I thought it was really cool to get to see and identify a large variety of animals, because that isn't something you see every day!
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-Tylor Sinak
The project I chose was Aurora Zoo, in this project you identify the shape, movement, and if its clear/fuzzy as well as if it's even an aurora. I liked this project because it was easy to follow and interesting to learn about. I would recommend it to my class because you probably wouldn't learn about it that much outside of school. It was cool seeing the many different variations of auroras. -Elena Appel
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The zooniverse project I chose is called Supernova hunting. This is a project where one looks at a set of multiple photos throughout time to try to identify the beginnings of a supernova explosion. These identifications are actually really hard, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got some wrong. I don't know if I would recommend it to anybody, they are really hard, but if one is up to it, then you should give it a shot!
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-David Carrasco
The zooniverse project I chose was "Maturity of Baby Sounds", this project you learn the different baby noises and what they mean to a developing kid, you also learn that you can tell if I kid is showing signs of autism or any other disabilities when there "babbling starts". I would recommend this project because you learn a lot of cool information and the tasks are really easy. The task were very straight forward and the project was very easy to understand and use.- Teagan Dunne
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The Zooniverse project I chose was "Variable Star zoo", this project has you learn about the different levels of light coming from stars and you have to take a quiz and create a 3d chart of the stars. I would recommend this this project because you learn alot about how the scientist at nasa figure all of this stuff out with a telescope looking miles away .
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The Zooniverse project I chose was "Capturing California's Flowers" and this project was about researching and finding new species of flowers in California and collecting data on it. I would not recommend it to other friends because we don't live in California so it would be impossible. It was pretty easy to understand because the project was pretty straight forward. The tasks were pretty straightforward but it would be very time consuming. I also found it interesting.
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ReplyDeleteThe project I chose was “Maturity of Baby sounds”. The task was straight forward because the only thing to it was listening to a sound ad decided what sound affect it was. It was also easy but figuring out what sound affect it was was kind of difficult. It was interesting trying to figure out what the sound was. I didn’t really learn much from the project though. The purpose was seeing if different languages and medical conditions affect the sound affect that they made and if it affects how long it takes for them to start talking, but it didn’t say. I wouldn’t recommend it for that reason, but I would recommend it to help the people that run the project so that they CAN get the results.
The project I chose was "Penguin Watching". The task was very easy yet, enjoyable. The website would show you a picture, taken by a motion sensor camera, of a colony of penguins. All you were asked to do was identify the number of adult penguins, baby chicks, eggs and if there were any other species around the colony. I would recommend my classmates joining because it's a very relaxing project but you still get to help researchers study endangered species. This project was easy to understand, fun to do and very straightforward creating a project that everyone can enjoy.
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The Zooinverse project i chose was " The maturity of baby sounds" this project was very interesting. You learn different baby noises and what they mean and the development of the noises. I recommend this project The tasks were easy and a project i think most people would enjoy
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Deletethe project i chose was planet hunters. in this project you are able to look at patterns in the galaxy and try to classify moving planets. -Maddie Hoffmeyer
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