Crowdsourcing
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We are very excited to be having Edwin Chen (http://blog.echen.me/) of Google (and formerly Twitter) stopping by to talk about crowdsourcing and his experience working on Clockwork Raven (http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/08/crowdsourced-data-analysis-with.html) and with Mechanical Turk. Come join us!
Talk: Human-Powered Machine Learning
A discussion of the role of crowdsourcing in the data analysis toolkit, specifically...
Use cases. Measuring the relevance of personalized search, gathering training data for machine learning classifiers, designing a system that incorporates crowdsourcing in real-time, high-quality research. Methods for quality control. Algorithmic techniques, gold standards, boosting, trusted workers. Advantages, disadvantages, and challenges around building a trusted workforce. Running your first task. (briefly) Intro to MTurk, MTurk API, experience with Clockwork Raven.
Schedule
6:30 - 7:00pm Social (food + beer served)
7:00 - 8:30pm Talk
8:30 - 9:00pm Social
Crowdsourcing