Previewing CrowdConf 2012 – Interview with CrowdSource.com’s Ken Stoddart

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As we are fast approaching CrowdConf, I am excited to announce that CrowdSource will participate as a sponsor at the upcoming CrowdConf 2012 in San Francisco’s Mission Bay Conference Center on October 23rd.  In its 3rd year, CrowdConf is on track to continue as the leading conference in the industry.  We are working hard to provide… Read more »

REPOST: Training the Cloud with the Crowd: Training A Google Prediction API Model Using CrowdFlower’s Workforce

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NOTE: The following post, by Kevin Cocco, was reposted from the Dialogue Earth blog.   Can a machine be taught to determine the sentiment of a Twitter message about weather? With the data from over 1 million crowd sourced human judgements the goal was to use this data to train a predictive model and use… Read more »

Crowdsourcing Meetup at Stanford Institute of Design

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Join us at the Stanford Institute of Design on Tuesday, May 3, for a night of networking, interactive presentations, and thought-provoking conversations. The following speakers will discuss developments in modern crowdsourcing work, how this impacts the world of design, and demonstrate their latest findings:

Highlights from NYC Meetup

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We’re back from our NYC Meetup. If you missed the event, you can see the presentations here. Here are a few kind words from one of the presenters, John Horton, Staff Economist at oDesk: “I really like how crowdsourcing/remote work is simultaneously a hot topic in both academia and industry/entrepreneurship. It’s fairly rare to have… Read more »