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Crowdsourcing the Discovery of New Mineral Reserves

Feb-28-20 By IdeaConnection
South Australia is offering a cool $250,000 (USD 166,000) to entice people to help uncover more mineral reserves. This five-month crowdsourcing challenge kicks off on March 2 and will encourage participants to use machine-learning techniques, alternative mathematical and data analysis approaches.

Crowdsourcing Solutions For A Sensor To Survive Venus

Feb-19-20 By IdeaConnection
Venus is not the most hospitable planet in the solar system. It has a surface temperature of 462°C (863°F) and an atmospheric pressure that is more than 90 times stronger than the Earth's. NASA thinks it has the technology and the smarts to design Venus-resistant electronics, but just to be on the safe side, it is seeking external help with a crowdsourcing competition.

Crowdsourcing An Updated Elements Song

Nov-15-19 By IdeaConnection
Here's your chance for a little bit of fame if you want some of that pop star spotlight to shine your way. The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine Chemistry World is crowdsourcing a new video of humorist Tom Lehrer's Elements Song.

Using Crowdsourcing to Locate Mining Drill Sites

Oct-23-19 By IdeaConnection
During this quarter Australian based mining company OZ Minerals will start drilling at a new site, based on a three-month crowdsourcing campaign. Earlier this year the miner offered up project data and an Australian $1 million (US $688,000) prize pool.

Crowdsourcing an Emoji for Forgiveness

Sep-26-19 By IdeaConnection
You're texting or on social media and have done or said something silly and want to acknowledge your actions with an emoji. What do you do? If you're looking for an icon to lighten the mood while asking for forgiveness you won’t find one. Not yet, anyway. But that may change. A number of charities and organizations in Finland are crowdsourcing to find the ideal emoji for such occasions.

How Researchers Crowdsourced 10,000 Years of Land Use

Sep-11-19 By IdeaConnection
A new crowdsourcing initiative has quantified 10,000 years of land use across the globe. More than 250 archaeologists from around the world contributed their knowledge to ArchaeoGLOBE to better understand how the land was used at different moments in time.

Improving Crowdsourcing Techniques for Disaster Relief

Jul-29-19 By IdeaConnection
A team of computer scientists from the University of Southampton in the UK is embarking on a research program to develop strategies to sustain interest in crowdsourcing analysis of drone footage once the immediate emergency of a disaster has passed. Currently, what happens is that once the story has dropped out of the daily news cycle volunteers tend to drift away.

NASA is Crowdsourcing a Playlist for the Moon

Jun-12-19 By IdeaConnection
Whether you're driving cross country or just down the road, music helps to pass the time and makes journeys more bearable. We all have our favorite tracks to get our fingers tapping but what would be on your playlist for a three-day journey - into space? NASA would like to know.

US Navy Big Data Project Wants 350 Billion Social Media Posts

May-29-19 By IdeaConnection
The US Navy is embarking on a project to collect, archive and study 350 billion social media posts from around the world. The aim is to understand more about online communication and how patterns of discourse change over time.

Crowdsourcing Traffic Data Could Save Lives

May-24-19 By IdeaConnection
A new University of California study has revealed that crowdsourcing traffic data could be a lifesaver. The paper titled 'Crowdsourced Traffic Data as an Emerging Tool to Monitor Car Crashes' was published this week in JAMA Surgery.