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 »

And the crowd goes wild (revisited)

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A few months ago, we created a crowdsourced ranking of NFL players according to their fantasy value. For those just tuning in, we took the Top 75 players in ESPN’s preseason preview as the experimental sample, paired them against each other, then had workers through the CrowdFlower platform select the better of the two. Now… Read more »