Enjoying the happy collaboration: Reach a consensus on paper coding results – Week 8

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The most exciting achievement of this week is that Heejun and I finally reached the agreement on our Scopus paper coding results. To be more specifically, we together reviewed our coding results for the 20 citizen science and VGI projects and their data quality mechanisms we identified from 56 papers, discussed the Continue reading Enjoying the happy collaboration: Reach a consensus on paper coding results – Week 8→

Recording Tutorials – Screencast Tutorials, Week #8

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This week’s progress consisted of lots script-tweaking followed by voice recording and screen capture, and then syncing the two together. To keep consistency, I wanted to get the groundwork done across all the tutorial videos before filling in the visual aids. I’m saving the demo video for last because it Continue reading Recording Tutorials – Screencast Tutorials, Week #8→

Human Error, the Ultimate Test

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As a graduate student, Christine had spent the last several weeks working on a statistical analysis exploring the links between air pollution and heart disease. The data set she was analyzing was quite large (the biggest Christine had ever worked with) and had been pulled from a much larger dataset, Continue reading Human Error, the Ultimate Test→

DUG Meeting Feedback – Screencast Tutorials, Week #7

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I received useful feedback on the four videos I presented at the DUG meeting last weekend. Audience members included librarians and other university employees, federal employees (USGS), DataONE folks, and others, so there were a variety of viewpoints represented. Most members were naive of the current ONEMercury interface. Attention-guiding additions Continue reading DUG Meeting Feedback – Screencast Tutorials, Week #7→

Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites (2) – Week 7

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This week I continue documenting data quality mechanisms by visiting and trying the first randomly chosen 100 citizen science projects‘ websites in the citizen science project list I compiled earlier. The initial findings include first, in terms of project discipline, it is similar to what we found among the papers searched Continue reading Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites (2) – Week 7→

Quality mechnism changes in the eBird project – Week 8

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During this week, I have carefully reviewed on how the eBird project has adopted and developed data quality mechanisms in its history. To do this, I have collected 25 papers and read them prudently. Among these papers, I have found 16 papers are relevant and describing quality assurance mechanisms in Continue reading Quality mechnism changes in the eBird project – Week 8→