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Using software	Amazon mechanical turk API BOINC client software BOINC server software CartoDB Citizen science custom software EpiCollect mobile app EveryAware Platform MediaWiki software Pybossa Sapelli Suite Semantic Forms extension
Dates Leave the end date open if the project is still alive	Start: End: Is open: Beta start:
OECD Subject Areas According to the OCDE FOS 2007 classification
Typical Subject Areas Most popular citizen science areas as found in citizen science portals	nature/conservation environment/climate geography/urbanism history/archeology biology/medicine/neuroscience physics space N/A other
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Project description:	Human Brain Cloud is a side project Kyle Gabler runs in his free time, originally created to teach myself web programming, but has become one of my favorite projects to tinker with. As of nov. 5 2013, the system includes 612908 unique words and 7182694 connections.
Purpose of project:	The main goal for the author was to learn something.
Research questions:	There is no research purpose associated as far as we can tell.
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Participant tasks and interfaces
Task description	The participant is presented with a word. He/she then has to type in an associated word.
Participant retributions	None, but the user can look at Global statistics, i.e. strongest connections (teddy->bear, mona->lisa, ping->pong) and most submitted words (me, sex, money)
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Grey typology	Volonteer computing: Volonteer thinking: Volonteer sensing: Volonteer gaming:
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Interface fun/enjoyment	None/unknown
Interface usability	None/unknown

Guidance
Guidance	Tutorials: Peer to peer guidance: Training sequence:
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Has one or more official community managers
Frequency of project news updates	None/unknown N/A daily several/week weekly less than weekly
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