Popcorn Hack 1

What are the different types of crowdsourcing, and how do they contribute to innovation? Provide a brief description of each type.

  1. Crowd Funding - The crowd funds a project or venture // Kickstarter or Indiegogo.
  2. Crowd Creation - The crowd creates a product or service // Wikipedia.
  3. Crowd Voting - The crowd votes on a product or service // Reddit.
  4. Crowd Wisdom - The crowd provides feedback or ideas // Quora.

Popcorn Hack 2

What is data crowdsourcing, and how does it contribute to open-source development? Provide 3+ examples of public datasets that have been created through crowdsourcing efforts.

Data crowdsourcing is simply where people contribute data to a project. Some examples are:

  1. OpenStreetMap - a map of the world that anyone can edit.
  2. Wikipedia - an encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
  3. Galaxy Zoo - a project where people classify galaxies.

Popcorn Hack 3

How does distributed computing contribute to innovations through crowdsourcing? Provide 3+ examples of successful projects that have utilized distributed computing and crowdsourcing to obtain data.

Distributed computing is where many computers work together to solve a problem. Some examples are:

  1. SETI@home - a project that analyzes radio signals from space.
  2. Rosetta@home - a project that simulates protein folding.
  3. Folding@home - a project that simulates protein folding.

Homework Hack

Complete the MCQ and FRQ

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