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 »
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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 »
REPOST: Training the Cloud with the Crowd: Training A Google Prediction API Model Using CrowdFlower’s Workforce
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 »
Superbowl Commercials – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
With consumers increasingly recording their experiences with brands online, Superbowl XLVI unleashed a trove of valuable consumer data. As the volume increases, though, it becomes harder and harder to sift though the quantities of data. In the words of Brad Jakeman, Chief Creative Officer of Pepsi, Smart listening tools that generate real-time cultural insights and… Read more »