Determining the Accuracy of Crowdsourced Tweet Verification for Auroral Research

The Aurorasaurus project harnesses volunteer crowdsourcing to identify sightings of an aurora (the “northern/southern lights”) posted by citizen scientists on Twitter. Previous studies have demonstrated that aurora sightings can be mined from Twitter with the caveat that there is a large background...

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Main Authors: Nathan A. Case, Elizabeth A. MacDonald, Sean McCloat, Nick Lalone, Andrea Tapia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2016-12-01
Series:Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
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Online Access:https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/52