After Heejun and I reached the agreement on our coding results, I went back to a several papers we coded to confirm a few quotes and data quality mechanisms with question marks, and then re-organized the coding results into two new documents as preparation for writing results in our paper. Continue reading Time to say goodbye to Notebooks – Week 9
The most exciting achievement of this week is that Heejun and I finally reached the agreement on our Scopus paper coding results. To be more specifically, we together reviewed our coding results for the 20 citizen science and VGI projects and their data quality mechanisms we identified from 56 papers, discussed the Continue reading Enjoying the happy collaboration: Reach a consensus on paper coding results – Week 8
This week I continue documenting data quality mechanisms by visiting and trying the first randomly chosen 100 citizen science projects‘ websites in the citizen science project list I compiled earlier. The initial findings include first, in terms of project discipline, it is similar to what we found among the papers searched Continue reading Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites (2) – Week 7
Based on the academic papers collected from Scopus and the citizen science project list, my work for this week includes first, organizing paper coding results by creating a table containing the information that for each unique citizen science project, what data quality mechanisms this project adopted and what details of these mechanisms mentioned in Continue reading Documenting data quality mechanisms from citizen science project websites – Week 6
This week I first reviewed my first round coding results and rethought the data quality mechanisms, then finished created the first version of citizen science project list. My teammate Heejun and I coded the first round coding separately to test the objectivity of the data quality mechanisms and subjectivity of Continue reading Citizen science project list – Week 5
My major accomplishment in this week is that I finished the first round coding. Fifty-six papers were coded. I wrote in my blog last week that I found that most citizen science projects mentioned in those papers I coded in previous two weeks (the key words we used to search papers Continue reading Finished the first round coding – Week 4
This week I coded another 17 papers. So far I finished coding all the papers (N=36) which were found by using the key words, “citizen science” and “data quality”, to search in Scopus. While coding these papers helps me to understand each mechanism in the context of actual citizen science Continue reading Happy coding – week 3
After we got 70+ papers by using specific key words (e.g., citizen science, data quality) to search in Scopus last week, so far I coded 19 papers. The code scheme is adapted from 17 data quality assurance and control mechanisms summarized by Wiggins et al (2011). The more papers I Continue reading Understanding data quality mechanism – Week 2
Before we officially start the internship, Rob, Heejun, Todd and me had a productive one-day face-to-face meeting on the beautiful campus of University of Massachusetts Boston last week. We reviewed the project background and goals together, then discussed the working plan for achieving the goals. Our work focuses on conducting a meta-analysis Continue reading Start the journey of exploration – Week 1