Accessible Data Curation and Analytics for International-Scale Citizen Science Datasets

2 Nov 2020  ·  Benjamin Murray, Eric Kerfoot, Mark S. Graham, Carole H. Sudre, Erika Molteni, Liane S. Canas, Michela Antonelli, Kerstin Klaser, Alessia Visconti, Andrew T. Chan, Paul W. Franks, Richard Davies, Jonathan Wolf, Tim Spector, Claire J. Steves, Marc Modat, Sebastien Ourselin ·

The Covid Symptom Study, a smartphone-based surveillance study on COVID-19 symptoms in the population, is an exemplar of big data citizen science. Over 4.7 million participants and 189 million unique assessments have been logged since its introduction in March 2020. The success of the Covid Symptom Study creates technical challenges around effective data curation for two reasons. Firstly, the scale of the dataset means that it can no longer be easily processed using standard software on commodity hardware. Secondly, the size of the research group means that replicability and consistency of key analytics used across multiple publications becomes an issue. We present ExeTera, an open source data curation software designed to address scalability challenges and to enable reproducible research across an international research group for datasets such as the Covid Symptom Study dataset.

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