{"id":12251,"date":"2012-08-24T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12251"},"modified":"2012-08-24T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:00:15","slug":"going-retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12251","title":{"rendered":"Going Retro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2012\/08\/23\/retro-science-part-1\/\">Retro Science \u2013 Part 1<\/a><br \/>\nMostly about Matthew Fontaine Maury, the first superintendent of the US Naval Observatory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maury embarked in crowdsourcing data in 1842 when, as a lieutenant, he was placed in charge of the Depot of Charts and Instruments of the Navy Department. Sailors followed a strict routine and were systematic in recording very specific observations around the clock. Ships were mobile weather stations, accumulating a standardized set of weather variables with the strictest regularity at 15 minute intervals. As much as sailors emphasized these routines, once a voyage was completed, the logs were practically viewed as rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>But when Maury saw the Navy\u2019s stockpile of old ships logs, he quickly realized the collective information could improve navigation. Maury developed a method to systematically extract key information from each log book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retro Science \u2013 Part 1 Mostly about Matthew Fontaine Maury, the first superintendent of the US Naval Observatory. Maury embarked in crowdsourcing data in 1842 when, as a lieutenant, he was placed in charge of the Depot of Charts and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}