Being tapped to write a blog post here at CrowdFlower is usually left to the experts. So with that, let me begin by making the disclaimer that I am neither a political analyst nor a data scientist. But I do have a personal fervor for politics and access to some impressive tools, thanks to my job… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2011
Crowdsourcing Scientific Research: Leveraging the Crowd for Scientific Discovery
Lab scientists spend countless hours manually reviewing and annotating cells. What if we could give these hours back, and replace the tedious parts of science with a hands-off, fast, cheap, and scalable solution? That’s exactly what we did when we used the crowd to count neurons, an activity that computer vision can’t yet solve. Building… Read more »
258 Guys in a Garage! Crowdsourcing an Entire Startup
About the author: Philip Rosedale is the creator of Second Life and a Co-Founder of LoveMachine, Inc. My co-founder Ryan and I are having so much fun pulling together data and thoughts for my upcoming keynote at CrowdConf next week. It’s a great opportunity to try and summarize much of what we’ve learned over the… Read more »
Crowdsourcing and Retention: From First-Timers to Seasoned Veterans
Millions of people have participated in our tasks over the last few years, and tens of thousands of people are active at any given moment. However, crowdsourcing is not a traditional engagement model. Tasks are elective, which means people are free to come and go as they please. It’s a fair question, then, to ask whether they… Read more »
Enterprise Crowdsourcing or: How I learned to stop worrying and trust the crowd
Our recent post about confidence bias, where we showed that most contributors vastly overestimate their own ability to complete tasks correctly, raised a lot of questions about how we manage quality at CrowdFlower. You might remember these themes from such classic posts as: AMT is Fast, Cheap and Good or the Wisdom of Small Crowds series… Read more »