Erick Davidson | Field notes.

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  [Participation effects in crowdsourced historical weather data transcription*] « Old Weather Blog

  Caption: “16,400 little boxes – one for each person who’s contributed to oldWeather. The area of each box is proportional to the number of pages transcribed, between us all we’ve done 1,090,745 pages.”

  Far-too-addictive crowdsourced science project Old Weather—which asks volunteers to encode Royal Navy ship logs from pre-WWI logbooks—shares some details about their volunteers.  I found myself contrasting this with the dearth of diversity in Wikipedia contributors, among others.

  * My concise, dorky title. Their own doesn’t describe the data much at all.

  16,400 people transcribed 1,090,745 pages = powerful beauty of The Internet

  I want this image hanging on my wall

  21 Sep 2012