Zooniverse at Hacky Hour 4 April

Save the date! Cam Allen, from the Zooniverse, will be a guest at Hacky Hour UQ on Tuesday 4 April at the usual time of 3pm.

Cam is a core developer in the Zooniverse team and is available to work with researchers to develop Zooniverse applications. Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most successful citizen science organisation. Their projects include Galaxy Zoo, Old Weather, Planet Hunters, Snapshot Serengeti & more. Shakespeare’s World is one of Cam’s projects.

This is a unique opportunity to implement novel citizen science projects in many disciplines. Zooniverse even has funding to implement biomedical applications, so researchers from IMB, QBI, AIBN, CAI … why not come along? Anyone with an interest in citizen science is welcome to attend. Researchers from Griffith, QUT, USQ, USC, CSIRO … you are all welcome.

You can find out more about the amazing crowd-sourced work they do by following the Zooniverse on Twitter or visiting their website.

The UQ Centre for Advanced Imaging has a Zooniverse project already up and running. Read more here.

Can’t make it to @hackyhourstluc that day? Express interest in talking to Cam.

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Hacky Hour is run by volunteers from QCIF and the UQ Research Computing Centre. It also includes regular visitors who come along to volunteer their expertise from UQ’s IMB and the Faculty of EAIT.

Hacky Hour is open to anyone who wants to either ask or answer research IT-related questions. We welcome new ‘experts’. We don’t have all the answers ourselves, but by networking, we hope to put you in touch with someone who does.

When is Hacky Hour? Every Tuesday 3-4 pm at Cafe Nano, near the AIBN. Come along!