Thursday, January 17, 2013 The Reasons Why Amazon Mechanical Turk No Longer Accepts International Turkers As many of you may have heard, Amazon is not approving international Mturk accounts anymore. In 2012 Amazon put a hold on accepting new ... 続きを読む
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and seconds later, people share it across the pl... 続きを読む
Twitter is a great way to understand real-time public or consumer opinions as they relate to events, products or other topics. That said, sometimes it’s difficult to see the trends—how do Apple customers feel about the newly released iPhone... 続きを読む
Mechanical Turk has received some bad press recently (this is one example). It has been pointed out that Mechanical Turk can be used to do evil, which got me interested in seeing whether if and how it can do any good (or at least: creative). ... 続きを読む
There’s has been much discussion in the past couple of days about how Quora can handle its recent explosive growth, avoid becoming a Yahoo Answers (i.e. full of nonsense and spam) and scale with grace. As further evidence of a growing succes... 続きを読む
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 What characters in history do you most dislike? Mao Zedong, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot Posted by MP at 3:02 PM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz 0 comments: Post a Comment 続きを読む
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 The New Demographics of Mechanical Turk Past surveys on the demographics on Mechanical Turk users indicated that most of the workers come from the US, are younger and more educated than the general population, and work ... 続きを読む
The online market place for work. We give businesses and developers access to an on-demand scalable workforce. Workers can work at home and make money by choosing from thousands of tasks and jobs.HITs - Human Intelligence Tasks - are individu... 続きを読む
User studies are an important part of visualization, but they also require a considerable amount of effort and time. In a paper presented at the BELIV workshop (part of CHI 2010), we discussed our experiences with running a number of visualiz... 続きを読む
「何かを買うときは、ウェブサイト上のユーザーレビューを参考にする」というのが一般的な態度になりつつあることは、様々な調査で明らかになっています。従って、「好意的なレビューをでっち上げてしまえ」などという良からぬことを考えるメーカーが出て来ても... 続きを読む
Girl Talk's Feed the Animals is one of my favorite albums this year, a hyperactive mish-mash sampling hundreds of songs from the last 45 years of popular music. Gregg Gillis created a beautiful, illegal mess of copyright clearance hell, which... 続きを読む
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