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yen223 on May 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: One week of crowd-sourcing the weather.

Is there a better term for user-generated data?

jabbernotty on May 18, 2013 [–]

Yes, 'crowd-sourced data' can also be expressed as 'user-generated data'.

Something along the lines of 'One week of user-generated weather reports' seems like a pretty clear title to me.

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