Monthly Archives: October 2018

Martin Jones talks citizen science ahead of SpotOn 18

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Designing programs to interpret images is so complicated that for many tasks, humans still outperform machines. To keep up with the tide of images produced by science we need a lot of people, this is where citizen science comes into play. Ahead of his talk at this year’s SpotOn conference, Martin Jones tells about the need for involving non-specialist volunteers in science and his own citizen science project: Etch a Cell.

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