TESS Network Motivation Survey (Light Pollution Citizen Science)
Motivation survey data from ~120 volunteers hosting TESS photometers to measure night-sky brightness and light pollution at a global scale.
- Size
- 5.4 MB
- Format
- CSV, HTML, JSON, R, TTL
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Access
- Open Access
- Source
- Zenodo (record 5753764)
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Challenge
Why do people volunteer to host a TESS light-pollution photometer, and which of their underlying motivations actually go hand-in-hand with staying motivated? The survey measures ten basic human values (Schwartz theory) - which ones matter most for keeping volunteers engaged, and does the picture change by age?
- Where to start
- Load tess-network-results.csv (long format, one row per answer). Drop the test users (testCefriel/testCefriel2) and blank users. Keep the ten motivation tags (achievement, belongingness, benevolence, conformity, hedonism, power, routine, self-direction, stimulation, universalism) with value between 1 and 5, and pivot to a volunteers x motivations table by averaging value per user per tag. Pull each volunteer's overall rating from questionId 1011, then correlate each value against it (scipy.stats.pearsonr) - you can check your numbers against the published tess-network-analysis-results.csv. Add demographics from questionId 1086 (age band) and 1085 (gender).
- What to share
- A motivation-profile chart (mean +/- std of the ten values), a correlation chart flagging which values significantly predict overall motivation, and a short note on what this means for recruiting more volunteers - plus at least one demographic cut (e.g. motivation by age band).
💬 Discuss this dataset, ask questions and share your results in its discussion thread. Challenges are open-ended — there's no single right answer.