Comments on: Our color names data set is online

By: Jan Margeta

Jan Margeta — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:30:26 +0000

Hi, wonderful experiment and a fantastic collection of data!
It would be interesting to also analyse the rejected “scammer” data. Maybe some of them are not intentional scammers and some interesting patterns exist.

Have you decided the license of the data and code already? Licenses proposed by Rob Myers seem to be quite friendly.

Cheers!

By: Josh Eveleth

Josh Eveleth — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:35:09 +0000

Excellent questions. We don’t have formal licensing on these. What do you advise?

By: Rob Myers

Rob Myers — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:40:55 +0000

Hi guys.

What’s the licence on the data, please? (CC0 or CC-BY would be good :-) ).

And on the code (GPL v3+ or MIT would be good :-) ).

Thanks.

By: Greg Gatch

Greg Gatch — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:43:22 +0000

This post is awesome, nice work!

By: mp

mp — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:27:44 +0000

Here’s a 3D visualizer for the data and some screenshots:

http://www.box.net/shared/qbunsqy0og

The script requires Python and the Panda3D engine. It uses the modified data set (data2.csv) posted by Nick. Use the left mouse button to pan and the right mouse button to zoom. It’s pretty easy to change the scale and orientation of the axes in the code. Improvements are welcome.

By: lukas

lukas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:38:53 +0000

In case anyone believes above comment, there was no pattern to the solicited colors. We reviewed that data and found virtually no cases of scamming (you can check for yourself in our color explorer).

This does illustrate why the reputation/scam detection system we’ve built on top of turk is important and useful to customers. Love the term “weekend scientist” :).

By: mturker

mturker — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:37:20 +0000

Does not mean sh*t. I run 58 mturk accounts with automated scripts. Did not even see the colors once I figured out it was in order red/purple/blue/green/yellow tones…Heh…. weekend scientists!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:52:50 +0000

1) I love the project! Great work.

2) I imagine it’s safe to assume that you don’t know the sex of your workers? I’d be very interested to know how each sex rated colors differently. If you only looked at males would you see more “blue”, “green”, “red”, etc. I notice that, relatively speaking, few people just said “red”. I blame the lipstick industry.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:31:33 +0000

Here’s a somewhat cleaner (labels are spell checked, lowercase) version of the CSV file: http://drop.io/doloreslabscolorsdata2

By: David

David — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:23:17 +0000

bill, try ^red$ to get just ‘red’.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:42:07 +0000

Do a filter for “red” in the explorer view. “Hulkcredible.”

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:56:28 +0000

Great idea and a nice start, however the color names are vague, poorly spelt and inconsistent. It’s pretty unusable in its current state.