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“Tools like the World Bank Finances mobile application allow them to follow the money trail from funding agencies, to countries, and to projects in their neighbourhoods.” The World Bank Finances...
In this work researchers have developed the first large-scale dataset containing gold-standard deceptive opinion spam. With it, researchers have shown that the detection of deceptive opinion spam...
In this paper the researchers demonstrate how they can crowdsource the creation of a large set of fictional AAC messages. They showed that these messages model conversational AAC better than the...
Crowdsourcing provider Kaggle will be hosting the competition on its online platform, after which the firm will make parts of the Million Interview Dataset available to its online community of more...
In this paper, researchers give a survey on the literature on crowdsourcing which are categorized according to their applications, algorithms, performances and datasets. This paper provides a...
The following conclusions were drawn: •Crowdsourcing is useful for building a news-query classification data set •The researchers are confident that their data set is reliable since agreement...
Kaggle is an innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing. They are the leading platform for data modeling and prediction competitions. Their crowdsourced data modeling is an effective...
The Blog Muse idea can be generalized beyond blogging to other forms of social media such as bookmarks, videos, photos, etc. In such a system, a straightforward application of this concept would be...
Distributing computing and storage needs between institutional and personal computers is not a one-way street. In addition to saving money, saving heat and energy (using already-running computers),...
This new web-app has the potential to provide much more detailed walkability ratings that include the things that really matter.
Walkonomics aims to rate the pedestrian-friendliness of every street in the world. By enabling ordinary people and local communities to add a rating of any street, it is hoped that a realistic...
The atmosphere at this year’s Crowdconvention – proudly co-sponsored by Microtask – was open and friendly. Companies were surprisingly willing to share information on topics ranging from...
Mollie Allick, director of PR and events for CrowdFlower, where they take large datasets and break them down into small tasks and distribute them to a labor force across the Internet.
With crowdsourcing projects, colleges and universities can use collective brainpower and energy to complete what they can't do on their own, going beyond their budgets and time constraints....
FixMyTransport was built to help people get common public transport problems resolved. It is targeted specifically at smaller problems such as persistently broken ticket machines, buses that always...
The Data Hub's initial store consists of 83 datasets provided by the W3C Linking Open Data Interest Group, including the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas - a record of gene expressions recorded from...
The Open Data project, which is part of the NASA Open Government Initiative, is intended to improve access to NASA data. This open data catalog is a continually growing listing of publicly...
Bin Laden Tweets have been analyzed prior, however, these analyses have been devoid of human interaction. With the need for human interaction and such a large dataset, the situation presents itself...
Both crowdsourcing and the Internet of Things will generate large volumes of data, leading to the third emerging trend of Big Data. The challenges of big data is that with larger datasets it become...
In this empirical study, the researchers used a dataset from Atizo, containing over 25’000 submitted ideas and over 83’000 ratings to evaluate the validity of their model. Research findings showed...
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