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 »
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March Meetup Video
Couldn’t make the March Meetup at CrowdFlower? Check out the video highlights below. If you like what you see above, join our Crowdsourcing Work Meetup Group for news on upcoming Meetups.
Crowdsourcing Meetup — March edition
It’s meetup time again here at CrowdFlower. We will have a great lineup of speakers here this Wednesday, March 23. Come by to see:
Oscar Fever: The Sequel!
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.
Oscar Fever
With the most glamorous award ceremony of the year just around the corner, we asked 500 people from across the United States to help predict who the big winners are going to be. Below are their predictions, sorted in descending order of agreement. Based on these early results, Pixar looks like a lock for yet another… Read more »