Hello!
Participants defied all expectations by retiring our first batch of data in less than six days! Based on Zooniverse guidance, we had sized our first batch of data to last approximately six weeks. We were ecstatic to receive an amazing 112,813 classifications of 7269 signals by 6275 classifiers (2012 registered and 4263 unregistered) in less than a week!
Initial analysis of more than 5000 signals revealed that some of our previous RFI classes were hardly ever detected, whereas other pervasive RFI signals were not captured by any of the available RFI classes available on the platform. We made the decision to replace these four under-utilized classes with four new classes, which have already been detected many times. Our updated workflow was activated at the same time as the second batch of 8543 signals, and we are happy to report that the transition proceeded smoothly.
Thank you for your amazing work!
UCLA SETI