CS Track Database: Citizen Science Projects Catalog
Comprehensive database of citizen science projects with titles, topic areas, languages, URLs and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Size
- 2.4 MB
- Format
- CSV
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Access
- Open Access
- Source
- Zenodo (record 7310096)
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Challenge
How does the citizen-science field distribute itself across languages, research domains and the UN Sustainable Development Goals — and do domains map onto the goals the way you would expect?
- Where to start
- Load /srv/data/cs-track-database/CSTrack_database.csv (6 columns: Insert Date, Language, Title, URL Platform, Research Areas, Sdg). The Language field is sometimes wrapped as ["English"], so unwrap it. Research Areas and Sdg are multi-valued: each cell holds space-separated quoted tags of the form "Domain, Sub-area, relevance-score" (best match first). Use a regex like re.findall(r'"([^"]+)"', cell) to split them, take .split(',')[0] for the domain and re.findall(r'SDG #(\d+)', cell) for the goal numbers, then explode to count.
- What to share
- Bar charts of projects per language and per SDG (1-17), plus a domain-by-SDG heatmap, and one surprising pattern you find (e.g. that ~42% of projects carry no SDG tag at all, or which SDG dominates).
💬 Discuss this dataset, ask questions and share your results in its discussion thread. Challenges are open-ended — there's no single right answer.