The IANUS consortium recently made publicly available its crowdsourcing observatory!
The observatory is publicly available here: https://crowdsourcing.trustinscience.eu/about/.
The observatory is a platform for analyzing and visualizing data related to discussions on trust in science. It collects tweets from the social network Twitter, with the aim to raise awareness and inform the public on trends relevant to trust in science, distrust in science, most discussed aspects, most active Twitter users and other resulting statistics.
Overall, this tool contributes to understanding from a data science perspective how the public reacts and responds (either positively or negatively) to contemporary and everyday topics having to do with trust in science, scientists, and scientific advancements. The intention of IANUS has been to detect and present public discussion trends in the trust-in-science thematic, dominant trends in users’ attitudes, and overall provide a platform that reflects in an evidence-based way the dominant discourses and narratives surrounding trust in science.
All the above comprise the first version of the crowdsourcing observatory. It will be updated in the upcoming months with data from open repositories, which address the topic of trust in science and the scientific fields addressed by the IANUS case studies (e.g., artificial intelligence, climate etc.).
Stay tuned for more information!