UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
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Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#2Why hasn't this been automated? Digit recognition technology is pretty good and it seems like the forms are pretty standardized.
Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#3Why hasn't this been automated? Digit recognition technology is pretty good and it seems like the forms are pretty standardized.
Probably because 99% accuracy isn't good enough.
Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#4Why hasn't this been automated? Digit recognition technology is pretty good and it seems like the forms are pretty standardized.
Probably because 99% accuracy isn't good enough.
What accuracy do you think humans have?
If I give you 1000 handwritten numbers, do you think you'll make less than 10 mistakes?
Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#5Why hasn't this been automated? Digit recognition technology is pretty good and it seems like the forms are pretty standardized.
Probably because 99% accuracy isn't good enough.
Haha 99% accuracy in weather data would be an amazing improvement. Noisy data and data holes are all we got to work with. Humidity sensors have a memory, storing moist/dry air inside the ceramic.
Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because 99% accuracy isn't good enough.
What accuracy do you think humans have? If I give you 1000 handwritten numbers, do you think you'll make less than 10 mistakes?
They will likely assign the same tasks to multiple people and use an ensemble of human consensus.
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#8It would be great if the data entry panel and the main document scrolled separately. Right now I have to scroll up and down to enter data, which is frustrating.
Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#9Re: UK scientists ask for help in transcribing 200 years of rainfall data
#10Why hasn't this been automated? Digit recognition technology is pretty good and it seems like the forms are pretty standardized.
Probably because 99% accuracy isn't good enough.
I've had a look at a few of those and I doubt you'd get 99% accuracy. A lot of the footnotes especially are very hard to decipher. They're also 50 years old, handwriting has changed over time. I'm not sure how well models are trained to read old handwriting, I know that I struggle with it.
For humans, much can be deciphered through context. That's much more complex to do with OCR.