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The voluntary sector site relies on readers to contradict entries if they are wrong, not the most reliable method. So the judgement must be that both these sites are a selective and unreliable...
Kaggle is a classic “brain-based” crowd competition site. Organizations post statistical problems and Kaggle’s crowd of “the world’s best data analysts” compete to solve them. As well as prize...
Last week the Economist released an infographic showing what works and doesn’t work on the crowdfunding website, Kickstarter. In 2012, over 18,000 unique projects were successfully funded on...
To help visualize the growth of the crowdfunding industry, we created this pretty awesome infographic :) SOURCE LINK to the full article:...
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Crowd-sourcing has many valuable uses in a crisis, but identifying spatial patterns of damaged buildings isn't one of them.
Crowdfunding statistics and trends presented in this report are based on over 1,000 U.S. businesses that used EquityNet from 2007 to 2012 to seek equity-based crowdfunding from accredited Reg D...
The crowdfunding industry is growing at a fast clip, and growth is only going to accelerate, according to massolution's 2013CF Crowdfunding Industry Report. We share an infographic by GoGetFunding that shows some of the statistics and trends around crowdfunding.
Stephen M. Stigler, a professor of statistics at the University of Chicago, was not at all impressed on the National Research Council's doctoral study. At first he criticized it just among his...
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...
Author Patrick Meier concluded that the Ushahidi platform is not a methodology. The Ushahidi platform is a mapping tool. The methodology that people choose to use to collect information is entirely...
CrowdANALYTIX is a revolutionary platform for business analytics and insights.CrowdANALYTIX utilizes crowdsourcing technique to generate vital insights through statistical analysis of business...
Hi folks, currently I am writing my bachelor thesis about crowdfunding (with little focus on Kickstarter) and therefore am looking for any information & statistics about crowdfunding worldwide...
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).
After the great hype on the crowdsourcing of science, in the near future the science of crowdsourcing will be a major scientific focus. There is a growing community of researchers studying how a...
There are statistics galore that tell the state of play as it currently sits with the world of crowd funding. Having researched them thoroughly, the following list shows some of the more poignant...
The folks at the Online Privacy Foundation (OPF) recently teamed up with the statistical and analytics crowdsourcing platform Kaggle to attempt to see if your activity on Twitter gives clues about your personality.
Can Kickstarter (and other crowdfunding platforms) supplement or replace university grants for students looking to fund their senior art project, film, or even a trip to do research abroad? This is the question that the following infographic, created by OnlineBusinessDegree.org, deals with, providing some interesting statistics and factoids on how students can best use Kickstarter to raise money.
Indiegogo let lose with a little bit of statistical analysis this week that seems to indicate that more Democratic-leaning or "Blue" states raise more money for crowdfunding campaigns than those more heavily dominated by the GOP (Red States).
Social media is key to crowdsourcing, whether it be raising money for a project through crowdfunding or looking for solutions via open innovation. This infographic shows some statistics around social media and how users share information about products and services.
EquityNet's free crowdfunding industry report contains business composition statistics and trends for many important attributes and even demonstrates the effects of the recession. For...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
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