Hello, I'm Arfon Smith.

I'm Director of Citizen Science at The Adler Planetarium where I build citizen science projects for The Zooniverse. I've been known to publish the odd paper and once wrote a thesis about dust.

If you need to contact me then you can email me on or find me on Twitter.

@hannyvanarkel @NGC3314 @galaxyzoo just the maintenance I've been talking to mods about. »
@kneath weirdly I completely disagree. Even though I'm not in any way a jay-z fan I thought it worked. Didn't think much of the movie thou »
@tokumin yup. They're dragging their feet. »
@tokumin as you're 'connected' can you get me an invite? »
George Takei Responds To "Traditional" Marriage Fans http://t.co/i2TpqsYzLa via @buzzfeedlgbt »

Twitter Streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB (21 January 2012)
Getting Started With Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Streaming (08 April 2011)
Six Months With New Relic RPM (30 March 2011)
Now is the Time for Astroinformatics (22 February 2011)
Autoscaling on AWS Without Bundling AMIs (10 November 2010)
Scaling Galaxy Zoo With SQS (30 October 2009)
A First Look at the Amazon Relational Database Service (28 October 2009)
Elastic Load Balancing on EC2 Redux (24 August 2009)
Hunting for Supernovae (14 August 2009)
Elastic Load Balancing on EC2 (09 June 2009)
Rails Sinatra Metal Shootout (07 May 2009)
Confessions of a Zoonometer Addict (07 April 2009)
Master Slave Databases with Rails (21 March 2009)
Surviving the Flood (15 March 2009)