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 »

Did you say “Great!”, or “Oh Great!”?

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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 »