Galaxies from a simple data reduction

• by ttfnrob admin, scientist

  I've been playing with the current data from the updated MWP and did a simple search for the most-likely galaxies that the community have found so far. These are the twelve results of a search of the database looking at the images in which most people mark galaxies. To generate this list, I look only at images with more than 10 classifications and then filter down to those where more than half the users that see the image mark a galaxy somewhere. All good candidates I think - a good start 😃

  Posted January 6, 2014 10:48 AM

• by JCoop

  I'm assuming that the "current data" is in a database of some sort? I'm a software engineer and can assist with java programming/sql type database programming if you have a need.

  Posted January 6, 2014 3:37 PM

• by scamp25

  @JCoop - check out Kaggle.com; they are a crowdsourcing site for data mining / statistical analysis. They are partnering with galaxy zoo to find ways of automatically analyzing the jpeg images to identify galaxies through a challenge.

  Posted January 15, 2014 8:39 PM

• by JCoop

  Thanks, @scamp23. Very interesting!

  Posted January 16, 2014 6:16 PM

• by citizen100

  Check image AMW0000g8w.

  Posted January 25, 2014 2:02 PM