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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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 »