No matter where you are in your project’s lifecycle or whether you are on a custom or shared platform, this conversation with leaders from six commonly used platforms will give you insights, ideas, or inspiration for your project’s next steps.

Web analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data to reveal visitor traffic and engagement patterns on webpages. But what tools are available, and how does a busy citizen science team make best use of them? Watch to learn the basics.

ArtificialIntelligence in practice: On February 20 the Zooniverse’s Dr. Laura Trouille joined us to share new functionality of the Zooniverse platform, including ways that Zooniverse projects are adjusting to work with new Artificial Intelligence/ machine learning tools.

There’s a special collection on The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Science in the journal Citizen Science Theory and Practice. Our February 6 event featured the editorial team, which was led by Zooniverse’s own Dr. Lucy Fortson.

Hear from six commonly used web platforms hosting participatory science projects in North America: CitSci.org; Zooniverse; FieldScope; Anecdata; iNaturalist; and GLOBE Observer. While we briefly about platform updates and future plans, the program is primarily a discussion of the kinds of research and participant experiences best supported by each. No matter where you are in your citizen science project’s life cycle, this conversation will help inspire your project’s next steps.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence technology are already being used to relieve the tedium or verify results from citizen science, with sometimes surprising results. Panelists share what they have learned about how to effectively marry citizen and machine efforts and what new technology is on the horizon.