Big Numbers App -- We are [LOOKING FOR ___] journalists and junior data-miners

[Palmstroemen]

Project Name Big Numbers

What you're looking for We are looking for junior journalists or data-miners. Your task is to find and investigate interesting big numbers (Number of cells in the human body, Number of stars in the universe, military expenses, ...). Write a short entry into a Wiki and tag it correctly.

Short Project Description We're building an app that shall people help to develop a "sense" for big numbers such as 40 billion. What is this? What does it mean to me?

Team Bios Oliver Rafelsberger has a university diploma in physics, worked as a development engineer and team leader in various software- and hardware projects. Currently, self-employed developing reversible energy solutions.

Mustaque Ahmed is a self-learner and problem solver. Full stack developer with several self-hosted projects on GitHub.

We have 2-3 more team members right now focussing on data-investigation. But we still welcome people that want to help to build up our database.

Why Work With Us Participate even with no expert skills in computer science. You are welcome to add 5 or 1000 entries to our Wiki. Give it a try! Have a look at our Wiki: http://big-numbers.cool-things.site/english/tiki-index.php And our GitHub-repository: https://github.com/Palmstroemen/bigNumbers

[jessicazhou]

I love this -- what a charming project!

[Pete-in-Community]

Hi Oliver and Mustaque, My name is Pete. I am a data writer/editor, experienced with compressed writing; plus logical data searches, data modeling, and basic PHP-MySQL project programming. My interest in the Big Numbers project is to apply my skills in worthwhile work, and promote the sense of community and cooperative orientation that is carried by the folks @ Mozilla. I've left an accessible sample of writing in a Wiki @ GitHub. SEE:
https://github.com/Pete-in-Community/writer.git Peter Atamanenko, in Canada

[Palmstroemen]

I love this -- what a charming project!

Thanks Jessica!

[Palmstroemen]

Hi Pete! Thank you for your application. Our team has already grown to 4 people yet but you are very welcome to contribute. The data aquisition is by far the most work in this tiny project and the more people contribute the faster our database can grow.

The principal idea is, that people should get a list of interesting items according to the number they have entered. But if they are interested in one particular item, they should be able to tap it and to get some more information about this item. For this, the idea is to first collect all these pieces of information in a Wiki. Then generate lists out of this Wiki and use it in the app. Finally link to the Wiki when the user wants to get more Information. Use the Wiki also for discussions.

One important thing would be to categorize the data in the Wiki somehow. I think best woud be to use tags. Peter, if you are in this slack-thing https://app.slack.com/ I could add you to our group there. And if you provide me some more information, I even can try to add you to the team. For this I'd need: Name | Email | Location | Role on team | Affiliation | Skill Sets | Link

Best would be to contact me via email, then chances are best that I don't miss your information: palmstroem177@gmail.com

[Palmstroemen]

Hi Pete! The deadline for application has passed. I haven't added you to the team right now, but nevertheless your contribution is very welcome. Maybe we'll get you in later.

[Pete-in-Community]

Hey Oliver, I just got your emails this (Tuesday) morning, so I thought I'd give it a try still. And share my basic info with you. I realize I was cutting it close to the deadline, wherever the readers may be! I should also warn you that I don't have much volunteer time and energy these days, even for an interesting project, so I'd really appreciate it if there was any chance of still actually joining your team. I'd also be interested in joining some of your conversations in Slack, too. --- Pete Name | Peter Atamanenko Email | peter.ata@hush.ai Location | Quesnel, BC, Canada Role on team | Data writer / Editor / Social-environmental Researcher Affiliation | None. Continuing as a STUDENT in Fall, 2020, at College of New Caledonia, Prince George, BC, in field of Web-Graphics Skill Sets | condensed, rational writing + editing; data modeling; basic database design + programming (PHP-MySQL, online db with 4 dynamic pages - no longer active) Link | Github: Pete-in-Community / writer SEE Wiki for "Big Numbers Health" as a short example.

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On 4/7/2020 at 12:19 AM, "Oliver Rafelsberger" wrote: Hi Pete! Thank you for your application. Our team has already grown to 4 people yet but you are very welcome to contribute. The data aquisition is by far the most work in this tiny project and the more people contribute the faster our database can grow.

The principal idea is, that people should get a list of interesting

items according to the number they have entered. But if they are interested in one particular item, they should be able to tap it and to get some more information about this item. For this, the idea is to first collect all these pieces of information in a Wiki. Then generate lists out of this Wiki and use it in the app. Finally link to the Wiki when the user wants to get more Information. Use the Wiki also for discussions.

One important thing would be to categorize the data in the Wiki

somehow. I think best woud be to use tags. Peter, if you are in this slack-thing https://app.slack.com/ I could add you to our group there. And if you provide me some more information, I even can try to add you to the team. For this I'd need:

Name | Email | Location | Role on team | Affiliation | Skill Sets |

Link

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[Palmstroemen]

Hi Pete. I can't find you on slack. Are you registered there? Can you try to contact me there? You should be able to find me by name there: Oliver Rafelsberger I've already setup a Wiki for data collection as a first proposal: http://big-numbers.cool-things.site/english/tiki-index.php Feel free to register (I thiny you need to register now - try out)