This weekend my partner in crime Charlie Mydlarz and myself participated in the Science in the City hackday which was part of the NYC 2014 World Science Festival. Two volunteers, Mark and Philip, joined the team too!
We worked on further developing our previous hack on a platform for crowdsourcing urban sound tagging, taking it from a prototypical proof of concept to a system that allows us to push sounds to a server and automatically create annotation tasks that are managed via crowdcrafting. Most of the work was on server-side behind the scenes stuff that I can't really "show", so here's a screenshot of the latest version of the interface instead:
We worked on further developing our previous hack on a platform for crowdsourcing urban sound tagging, taking it from a prototypical proof of concept to a system that allows us to push sounds to a server and automatically create annotation tasks that are managed via crowdcrafting. Most of the work was on server-side behind the scenes stuff that I can't really "show", so here's a screenshot of the latest version of the interface instead:
This time round, we incorporated a new citizen science aspect - handing out microphones to participants so that they can contribute their own recordings to the project!
In this way, the platform we are developing will not only help us compile a large dataset of labeled urban sounds (e.g. for training machine learning algorithms and creating interactive sound maps), but it will also enable communities interested in recording and analyzing the sound of their local environment to do so through a set of intuitive interfaces. The hack won the "Best Social Impact Award", and we even got a shiny medal :)
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