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This presentation helps businesses trying to improve their workflows using crowdsourcing and specifically, Mechanical Turk. Improving human efficiencies and lowering costs.TRANSCRIPT
Crowdsourcing for improving
Business Process
October, 2012 - Optimized for 1280x960 - © Amazon Web Services
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Before we start ] [ 2
_ Presented by
John Hoskins, hoskins @ amazon.com
Mechanical Turk, Amazon
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Detail
High Level
What is MTurk?
How does it
work Crowdsourcing
How is it used
Questions
Our plan for today ] [
Examples
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What is Crowdsourcing? ] [
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Crowd Labor Trends [ ]
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1. Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing: Key Advantages
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1. Elastic Capacity ] [
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On and Off Fast Growth
Variable peaks Predictable peaks
Staffing Usage Patterns
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On and Off Fast Growth
Predictable peaks
Missed Opportunity
WASTE
Staffing Usage Patterns ] [
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Variable peaks
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Fast Growth
Predictable peaks
On and Off
Usage Patterns: Crowdsourcing ] [
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Variable peaks
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2. On Demand Availability ] [
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3. Pay as you go, for what you use
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Business Benefits of Crowdsourcing ] [
Improve productivity
Lower costs
$ Capital efficiency
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Focus on your business
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2. What is MTurk?
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Marketplace for Work _ Access to global workforce, on demand
_ Quality controls and workflow “building blocks”
_ Pay as you go, only when satisfied with results
_ Programmatic Access (API)
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What is Mechanical Turk?
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Global Workforce ] [
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_ 500,000 Workers
_ 190+ Countries
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3. How it works
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How it works [ ]
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Mturk Workforce [ ]
MASTERS
Highest Performing
Average
Unknown
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Custom Workforce [ ]
MASTERS
Highest Performing
Average
Unknown
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Your Custom Workforce
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Balances & Levers
Accuracy
Price
Speed
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4. How is it used?
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Common Use Cases [ ]
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Data Management _ Verification
_ Entry & Collection
_ De-dupe
_ Algorithm Training
Annotation _ Tagging
_ Classification
Content Management _ Moderation (Photos, Content)
_ Transcription
_ Localization/Translation
Analysis/Research _ Sentiment
_ Relevance
_ Online Research
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[ ] Examples
How can we assess relevance of tweets in real-time?
How can we research and categorize merchants in our database?
How can we verify accuracy of low confidence OCR scans?
How do we build a dictionary to categorize ads on the internet?
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[ ] Examples
Categorization
Web Research
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Categorization and DeDupe
