I’ve been playing with IdealList, CrowdFlower’s new business data tool that collects online information about companies. I collected information about around 1200 small business in Houston and San Francisco evenly distributed across Pizza Shops, Florists, Sushi Restaurants, Strip Clubs and Private Investigators. I was surprised to see that small businesses in Houston have more of a… Read more »
Posts By: Lukas Biewald
Quality in the crowd
I’m going to be delving into the topic of quality in the crowd at Crowdsortium on Thursday, September 13, and I figured I’d give a preview of some of the things we’re thinking about at CrowdFlower. Chris and I started CrowdFlower on the premise that we could use smarter statistical analysis to collect high quality… Read more »
Announcing Senti – Richer Sentiment Analysis Through Crowdsourcing
Over the past few months, our PM Dave and our engineering team have been working day and night on a new product: Senti. Senti makes it incredibly easy to ask the crowd rich questions about your social media data. The Senti Dashboard (designed by our talented Mars): The core idea behind Senti isn’t new: our customers… Read more »
Real Time Foto Moderator – The Rambling Anti-Elevator Pitch
I never really understood the need for photo moderation until Chris and I built our first webapp together. This webapp was called FaceStat, a website where you could upload photos of yourself and get “feedback” from other people on things like whether or not you looked friendly and if you could win a fight with… Read more »
Breaking Monotony with Meaning: Motivation in Crowdsourcing Markets
This is a guest post written by my friend Dana Chandler on how the context of a task motivates the person working on it. He has a longer academic paper on the topic you can find at the bottom of this post. It once again shows how traditional economic incentives can’t fully explain workers’ behaviors… Read more »