#data projects

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[heartorbit]

hello, sekai! 🌎💫☘️💿🎪🎼

it's a good movie sir

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

A private data base that has every scrap of information about you. You will never have privacy again and you will be wide open to identity theft

[ready-resist-rebuild]

U.S. RESIDENTS PLEASE READ

For those living in the United States who are unhappy with the state of the country and who wish to protect themselves, protect others, or those who wish to fight back, this message is for you. Below you will find a link to a Proton Drive containing a folder called Tipr Complete. In it are valuable resources regarding health, safety, rights, building national resilience, and more.

Each file is sorted into sub-folders, and a full list of source links for each document is provided in a text file to make it easier to access the information online if you wish. There is also a text file to assist with getting started as well as an index to help you navigate. This is a work in progress, so you can expect updates in the future.

As there is increasing concern over potential censorship, it is recommended to download these resources, either from the Proton Drive directly or by going to the original sources. This will help ensure the information is still accessible in the future. Please consider sharing this information and this post as much as you can so that it may reach those who need it most.

Thank you, and good luck.

[unbfacts]

[copepods]

the adhd urge to start a big project and make the development public even though i know i'll give up on it within a month

[mostly-natm]

The student becomes the teacher.

[millenniallust4death]

I’ve posted about it before, but I’ve been working on archiving Martin and Bosco’s blaze post in case Tumblr randomly disappears one day like a cartoon on HBO Max. I figured I’m probably not the only person or community who wants to archive their Tumblr posts, so I made a project website to explain what I’m doing. It all feels ridiculously extra, but that’s how I am about data science stuff.

You’re welcome to follow along with the project if you’re interested in the post or want to learn a bit about how to make sense of data. Questions are always welcome — whether you're curious about the methods, confused by the plots, wondering what’s next, or just thinking, “can I archive my own posts?”.

Link to the project website: https://lebriggs.com/ Note: The website is readable on mobile, but dashboards aren't really built for enjoyable small screen viewing.

Here’s a screenshot of a dashboard to get your started — you can find it on the website in an interactive form.

[snow-lavender]

The Fable SMP Fandom Survey: Pt. 3

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Thanks you all for waiting so long for these, wrangling the data took WAY more time than I expected (well over 50 hours if i had to guess), but I'm so happy that I got it done in time to post it on such a special day :)

[8scarpiastr1]

this is how i cope btw. if u even care

[eddieintheocean]

have u guys ever seen a sexier spreadsheet

[potatoattorney]

important data

[jiaxxnscribbles]

i just remembered that i can in fact post Old Art so here is an album cover project from last semester

Details below!

This was the second project of my Illustration Intensive I class last semester, and we had to either design or redesign an album cover, so I chose The Mechanisms

During the project I took a 4-hour detour trying to translate the Red Signal chant into norse runes, aka I threw it through a translator and tried (emphasis on tried) via wikipedia to fix any Weirdness despite knowing next to nothing about runes so its probably. Incredibly wrong lol

[friendofcars]

my manuscript got accepted 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊

[bringbreakables]

Not me making all my Venmo transactions and contacts private