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:

CrowdFlower and Citizen Effect: So Much Madness

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After hearing that our friends at Citizen Effect were sponsoring Brackets with Benefits, a cool new March Madness pool where the proceeds from all the gambling go to one of the many awesome community development projects they support, we thought it would be fun to get involved. Considering how most people** watched their brackets go… Read more »

Oscar Fever: The Sequel!

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The votes are in from our Oscar crowdsourcing experiment, and the crowd successfully picked the winners of 14 of the academy awards. For reference, Roger Ebert got 15 predictions correct so we’d have to conclude that the crowd performed reasonably well at predicting the winners of this glorified popularity contest.