Crowdsourcing Nathan McFarland Isaac Nichols February 26 th, 2013.

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Crowdsourcing Nathan McFarland Isaac Nichols February 26 th, 2013

Agenda Crowdsourcing History and Background Crowdsourcing Demo Worker Quality Control Theories and Tactics Crowdsourcing War Stories

Isaac’s Background Former UW/CSE Student. Worked for Microsoft & then Amazon after graduation. Responsible for launching Amazon’s Mechanical Turk on Nov 2005 Sold crowdsourcing consulting business, TurkForce, to CrowdFlower in 2010 Founded Chirpsy in 2011…

Nathan’s Background Started Career by working for 7 startups in 6 years, doing all manner code. Followed that with a stint at Los Almos National Labs - doing a bunch of more academic things. Founded CastingWords in Nov 2005 right when MTurk launched, ~7 year ago.

What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is … “Engaging distributed groups of people with an open call to complete a task.” — Jeff Howe 2006

Crowdsourcing is … “Engaging distributed groups of people with an open call to complete a task.” — Jeff Howe 2006

What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is … “Engaging distributed groups of people with an open call to complete a task.” — Jeff Howe 2006

What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is … “Engaging distributed groups of people with an open call to complete a task.” — Jeff Howe 2006

Crowd Labor Definition: Leveraging of a distributed virtual labor pool, available on-demand to fulfill a range of tasks from simple to complex Simple Micro-task Crowdsourcing Complex Task Crowdsourcing

History Lesson: The Original Mechanical Turk

5 Minute Mechanical Turk Demo…

Worker Quality Control Plurality / Majority Rules Gold Standard Questions / Known Answers Peer Review / Grader Validation Workflows Algorithmic Approaches (Machine Learning) Worker Reputation Submission Credibility (Dynamic Quality Control)

Crowdsourcing War Stories The Good… –Workers can be extremely helpful and proactive The Bad... –Mistakes can have long term consequences The Ugly… –Unpredictable Fraud

Questions?