Tutorials

These tutorial notebooks guide Rubin scientists through the process of creating a Zooniverse project and retrieving classifications. The purpose of each individual notebook is outlined below.

Citizen Science notebooks GitHub repository

Introduction to Rubin Citizen Science

Notebook: 01_Introduction_to_Citsci_Pipeline.ipynb

Start with this notebook to learn how to create a Zooniverse project with Rubin, send images from the Rubin Science Platform (RSP) to Zooniverse, and retrieve raw classifications.

Create an Image Flipbook on Zooniverse

Notebook: 02_Send_Flipbook_Variable_Stars_Imaging.ipynb

Use this notebook to query and send a flipbook of variable star images from the RSP to Zooniverse. A flipbook is a collection of multiple images, useful for tracking and identifying sources at the same location that change over time. This notebook focuses on variable stars, which exhibit brightness variations.

Download and Aggregate Zooniverse User Classifications

Notebook: 03_Aggregate_Classifications.ipynb

Use this notebook to retrieve and aggregate classification data from Zooniverse. This tutorial aggregates (or combines) user classifications by grouping them by task and user. It selects the most recent classification from each user and applies Zooniverse’s question_consensus_reducer function to determine consensus for each subject ID. This notebook builds on the retrieval process demonstrated in the first tutorial and extends it to aggregating raw user classifications.