WinterMilestone 1 nalinc
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Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk
I tried hands on Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer environment workersandbox[2] because of its __ and restriction-free access across nations. It is a simulated environment that allows users to test their applications and perform HITs[Human Intelligence Tasks]. Being a testing platform, it does not allow transfer of funds outside the sandbox. I completed a total of 21 tasks and managed to earn 2.10 USD* by 2:00 PM IST 14th January, 2015.
Below is a screenshot of my dashboard from worker account at MTurk.
*Current total is: 27 tasks.
I kept doing few more tasks posted by my peers at Milestone 1 Sandbox HITs[3]
Following are few of the tasks I attempted during the process:
- Find the Hotel Name Address for Given URL
- Find the correct(valid) url
- Find the website address for restaurant
- Tagging of an Image
What did you like? --todo--
What did you dislike? --todo--
Experience the life of a Requester on Mechanical Turk
Again, like the workersandbox, I tried Amazon Mechanical Turk's developer environment requestersandbox[requestersandbox.mturk.com] to get into the shoes of a requester. I also did minor investigations in microworkers[4] and performed task authoring in Daemo. Speaking of MTurk sandbox, I published the following tasks
1) Provide descriptions of popular opensource projects[5]
- Qualification required: None
- Number of Assignments per HIT: 15
- Reward per Assignment: $0.10
- Input csv file: File:Softwares.csv
2) Judge the sentiment expressed toward: random user tweets[6]
- Qualification required: Worker should be master
- Number of Assignments per HIT: 5
- Reward per Assignment: $0.15
- Input csv file: File:Sentiment.csv
What did you like? --todo
What did you dislike? --todo
CSV file generated when you download the HIT results: File:Batch 119356 batch results.csv
Explore alternative crowd-labor markets
Because of location restrictions, my account registration was rejected at most of the crowd platforms including MTurk, Uplink. However, I did explore Daemo task authoring locally. Comparison of Daemo with other platforms is described later.
Readings
MobileWorks
- What do you like about the system / what are its strengths? --todo
- What do you think can be improved about the system? --todo
Daemo
- What do you like about the system / what are its strengths? --todo
- What do you think can be improved about the system? --todo
Flash Teams
- What do you like about the system / what are its strengths? --todo
- What do you think can be improved about the system? --todo
Milestone Contributors
Author: @nalinc