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
By this week, I have completed the first cycle of coding for the meta-analysis. So far, I have read 55 papers and coded them. There were a lot of lessons to share with other team members such as the criteria of inclusion/exclusion of paper and distinct definitions for each quality Continue reading Week 4: The completion of the first cycle of coding
Over the last week, our group has kept on coding the selected papers for the meta-analysis. As we know, meta-analysis is an iterative process for us to make consensus on coding scheme. Thus, it is critical to set a set of rule for coding. As for me, I have coded Continue reading Developing coding criteria for accetance of papers in meta-analysis
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
For my second week of the internship at the DataONE, I continued meta-analysis by calibrating a sample Excel worksheet for the analysis and reading papers. By communicating through threads of emails, our team shared a variety of ideas to improve the worksheet. As for me, I have read 25 papers Continue reading Citizen Science Data Gathering : Blog Week #02
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
With regard to the summer internship at the DataONE, the general goal of the project 4 is to document citizen participation, data collection procedures, and analysis tasks undertaken by citizens through literature review process. Our team, especially, has more interests in tuning data quality. To make the review and synthesis Continue reading Citizen Science Data Gathering : Blog Week #01 (by Heejun)
The 2014 DataONE Summer Internship research activity will launch shortly. Check back for updates at the end of May / beginning of June.