Recently, I’ve witnessed a rise in the number of crowdsourcing jobs targeted at accomplishing tasks for the medical industry. Every once in a while I’ll be fortunate enough to run across an exceptionally intriguing job that makes use of crowdsourcing in a really unique way. Antonio Foncubierta’s crowdsourcing job is one of those unique tasks… Read more »
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Previewing CrowdConf 2012 – Interview with CrowdSource.com’s Ken Stoddart
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 »
Did you say “Great!”, or “Oh Great!”?
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 »
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 »
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 »