1. Growth of Crowdsourcing Kaggle and Crowdflower Our Crowds
Their Motivation
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2. Google Scholar Articles mentioning Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing on the rise (Google Scholar and Google trends for the word).
Google Scholar Articles mentioning Crowdsourcing
Google searches for Crowdsourcing
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3. So many crowdsourcing sites
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4. Kaggle and Crowdflower Our Crowds Their Motivation
Crowdsourcing
Kaggle and Crowdflower
Our Crowds
Their Motivation
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6. Kaggle’s Dark Matter Competition on the White House blog
“The world’s brightest physicists have been working for decades on solving one of the great unifying problems of our universe”
“In less than a week, Martin O’Leary, a PhD student in glaciology, outperformed the state-of-the-art algorithms”
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8. Crowdflower example project
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9. CrowdFlower Quality Control How accurately can we moderate content ?
Traditional team
95% accuracy
94.5
1.6
1.8
2.1
Crowdflower example project
3.3
85.7
Total 9
workers
Total
3.9
workers 1 3 5 7 9
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11. Judgements 2008–11
Members 2010–12
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12. Kaggle and Crowdflower Our Crowds Their Motivation
Crowdsourcing
Kaggle and Crowdflower
Our Crowds
Their Motivation
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14. Kaggers backgrounds – waiting for lukas
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15. Gender Demographics
Kaggle right crowdflower left
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16. Kaggle and Crowdflower Our Crowds Motivation
Crowdsourcing
Kaggle and Crowdflower
Our Crowds
Motivation
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17. Why do they do it? Why epople contribute to Crowdflower
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18. “I like it is that you are solely awarded on your quality of work
“I like it is that you are solely awarded on your quality of work. Unlike a normal work situation where your social skills and appearance greatly affect the rewards that you receive.”
Kaggle is like American Idol: you can find out if you’re a Clay Aiken or a William Hung —or somewhere in between.
NIPS Reject
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19. “I was just bored one Saturday afternoon”
“I get bored and I have nothing else to do, or I would like to earn some more Swagbucks” ”
“I was just bored one Saturday afternoon”
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20. “My motivation has been to learn new things.”
“I believe that working on your tasks helps to exercise the brain.”
“My motivation has been to learn new things.”
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21. “Poker is a fairly mundane game when no money is involved”
“I can earn a little extra money when I have time to do so” ”
“Poker is a fairly mundane game when no money is involved”
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22. “Sometimes I try to get as many SBs in one day as I can. ”
“Initially it was a Can I do it? motivation. Almost immediately, that was replaced by Can I do it better then others?”
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23. Champions Restaurant & Sports Bar
(Right downstairs from the meeting space)
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