Corey T. Callaghan|Jodi J. L. Rowley|William K. Cornwell|Alistair G. B. Poore|Richard E. Major
Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling
Ecosystem Sciences|UNSW Sydney|Ecosystem Sciences|UNSW Sydney|Australian Museum|UNSW Sydney|Ecosystem Sciences|UNSW Sydney|Australian Museum
citizen science mainstream millions people contribute data growing array citizen science projects annually forming massive datasets drive research years come many citizen science projects implement leaderboard framework ranking contributions based number records species encouraging participation every data point equally valuable citizen scientists collect data distinct spatial temporal biases leading unfortunate gaps redundancies create statistical informational problems downstream analyses point haphazard structure data seen unfortunate unchangeable aspect citizen science data however argue issue actually addressed provide simple tractable framework could adapted broadscale citizen science projects allow citizen scientists optimize marginal value efforts increasing overall collective knowledge