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The Human Face of Big Data app allows volunteers to provide demographic information through a series of questions. Then through the rest of the week the smartphone’s sensors were keeping a log of...
The challenge was to analyse the genes involved in the production of antibodies and immune-system sentinels called T-cell receptors.These genes are formed from dozens of modular DNA segments...
Data geeks all over the world are coming together this weekend for the closest thing to Mission: Impossible in the world of open innovation and predictive modeling. The first ever global data science "hack-a-thon" starts Saturday and runs for 24 hours, with participating data scientists worldwide taking on a specific challenge – to improve the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index by coming up with better and more accurate predictive models of metropolitan air pollution.
How do you demonstrate big data? It's the somewhat abstract, powerful analytical processing of massive quantities of human- and machine-generated data. Rick Smolan believes he can help people...
NASA, the European space agency and others had been working on the problem for 10 years but Martin O’Leary British glaciologist from the University of Cambridge, found the solution in a week and a...
According to John Crowley, a researcher with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, open and real-time technologies, including Facebook, Twitter, and others that address aid and development issues,...
Data predictive challenges have dealt with a variety of topics like improving research for HIV, forecasting tourism, predicting beer sales, estimating which Wikipedia editors are most likely to...
Harvard Assistant Professor, researcher and author Karim Lakhani discusses a specific gene sequencing data algorithm whose speed was improved by over an order of magnitude, while enhancing the...
This is a big data problem that needs mass human intervention until the software can catch up. Moreover, crowdsourcing has proven to be a workable solution in many other projects and sectors....
Paul Spinrad is the guy who gave the movement for a crowdfunding exemption in the U.S. its first big shove towards becoming law. In this exclusive series on Crowdsourcing.org, he recalls those early days and the efforts that have since begun to blossom in the form of the JOBS Act. In the second half of the series, he also gives us an inside look at the fanatical devotion of some of crowdfunding's true believers.
Developed by two idealistic Canadians and two open-minded Americans, the Cloud Labor platform CloudFactory, lauched this week in San Francisco, is an ambitious project based in Kathmandu, Nepal, with an objective to bring new opportunities of work to people in developing countries to help fight poverty.
Crowdsourcing.org had the opportunity to interview Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development of CloudFactory while he was in San Francisco for the launch of the platform at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference. We learned that CloudFactory is following a similar model to established providers such as CrowdFlower, Microtask and others. CloudFactory allows businesses to design virtual assembly lines for all types of digital work such as inputting data from handwritten forms, extracting data from images, flagging bad content and categorizing things. However, “The main difference between CloudFactory and its competitors is its free self-serve toolset that allows users to set-up their own workflows” Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development, informed us.
Monday, September 26 is going to be a big day for us at Crowdsourcing.org and, of course, for all our daily visitors. As we approach the first anniversary of the launch of the site – we launched at CrowdConf2010 on October 4 last year – looking back over the year we have acheived a lot and had a great first year, establishing a great following and earning the respect of many people we admire and many we don't yet know.
I’ve been a little quiet on the blogging front, but it hasn’t been because I took the summer off! Apart from my relocation from Dallas back to L.A. (how pleased am I about that!), trips to give presentations at various crowdsourcing conferences in Europe and a trip to São Paulo in August to present at the first Latin American conference on Crowdsourcing, we have been really busy working on a number of important initiatives.
Tomorrow mid-morning Pacific Time, all being well, we have an exciting new site to unveil. We have given the site a massive overhaul and we hope everyone likes it – we think you will! Over the next few weeks we will be introducing a range of additional features including live chat, featured videos and great new whiz-bang technology for a whole bunch of user-friendly options such as social sign-up, log-in, share and comments, etc.
Another exciting initiative we are also launching tomorrow is the first comprehensive industry survey that will allow us, and others that get access to the data, to answer many of the questions we have all been dying to address – questions such as how big is the industry, how fast is it growing, how much work is being performed, what’s its nature and what money is being spent.
The use of the term crowd-sourced as part of the in-phone display text on the iPhone 4S marks another landmark event in the adoption of the term crowdsourcing.
I’ve been taking note of any signs that give rise to the term crowdsourcing entering the mainstream lexicon. One interesting indicator is the statistics on the number of monthly searches of the term. Over the last twelve months the number of global monthly searches has nearly doubled from just over 60,000 a month to 110,000 month, today.
If you look at the peaks, not surprisingly, they coincide with news items that either report the use of crowdsourcing by big companies (i.e. [B] Microsoft) or by articles on crowdsourcing by big publications (i.e. [A] – Information Week, [D] – Business Week, [G] – Forbes).
Last week Transparency Life Sciences launched as the world’s first drug development company that is based on Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing.org takes a look at Open Innovation in the scientific community to see how this could work in the world of medicine.
Building on recent successes in utilizing crowdsourcing to solve science quandaries,and with a nod toward the public’s increasing reliance on smart phones to provide them with everything from...
Vanity infographics are all the rage right now, but this one on Kickstarter's rise is well worth your perusal.
This week, entrepreneur Paul Hanraets and his team launched Gambitious, an equity-based crowdfunding platform for video games. Gambitious allows investors to purchase a stake in video game projects posted on the platform, promising its users a share of the profits should the game succeed.
Two weeks ago, we published a piece that discussed the state of open innovation (OI). In order to get the most current information for my story, I spoke with several executives from a number of leading OI companies. Today, I am sharing my very enlightening conversation with InnoCentive’s Vice President of Marketing Steve Bonadio.
Here are three compelling reasons you should consider an Open Innovation approach to tackle your biggest algorithmic challenges.
Launcht co-founders Freeman White and Spencer Taylor wanted to help social entrepreneurs. They set up a crowdfunding platform, Launcht.org, dedicated specifically to raising money for entrepreneurs' projects. They also gave entrepreneurs the tools necessary to create their own platforms to raise money from the crowd.
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