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Crowdsourcing for science | Robert Simpson

436 views · Published 13 February 2017 · 4:12 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: TED Archive · 2017 · Education

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Could crowdsourcing play a major role in science? Astronomer and web developer Robert Simpson thinks it can. By sharing data with the public and then asking them questions, he talks about how new patterns could emerge leading to new discoveries. 
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