Category: crickets
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Cricket Tales released
Cricket Tales is an ambitious citizen science project. 438 days of CCTV footage from the Wild Crickets Research group – the only record of wild behaviour of insects of it’s kind. It turns out that insects have more complex lives and individuality than we thought, and the game is a way of helping uncover this…
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Cricket Tales – scaling up
Work on cricket tales the last few weeks has been concerned with scaling everything for the sheer amount of data involved. The numbers are big – we’re starting with the footage from 2013 as a test (a ‘smaller’ year), where 145 cameras recorded in total 438 days worth of video of cricket burrows. Our video…
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Some algorithms for Wild Cricket Tales
On the Wild Cricket Tales citizen science game, one of the tricky problems is grading player created data in terms of quality. The idea is to get people to help the research by tagging videos to measure behaviour of the insect beasts – but we need to accept that there will be a lot of…
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Migrations in django 1.7
For the wild cricket tales project I’m using django again, the all new 1.7 version which has amongst lots of other shiny things has an all new migrations system. This is so you can change the underlying database ‘model’ for your site and it automatically tracks your changes and applies them to the data (via…
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Wild Cricket Tales
We have a brand new citizen science project starting with the wild crickets research group at Exeter University! These researchers are examining how evolution works with insects in their natural environment, rather than in lab conditions. In order to do this they have hundreds of CCTV cameras set up recording the burrows of field crickets,…