Crowdsourcing - Unabridged Guide (Paperback)

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Here's part of the content - you would like to know it all? Delve into this book today .....: Those who use crowdsourcing services, also known as crowdsourcers, are motivated by the benefits of crowdsourcing, which are that they can gather large numbers of solutions or information and that it is relatively inexpensive to obtain this work.

... Wisdom of the crowd is another type of crowdsourcing that collects large amounts of information and aggregates it to gain a complete and accurate picture of a topic, based on the idea that a group of people is often more intelligent than an individual.

...Though it is sometimes difficult to gather data about the demographics of the crowd, a study by Ross et al. surveyed the demographics of a sample of the more than 400,000 registered crowdworkers using Amazon Mechanical Turk to complete tasks for pay.

... By Nov. 2009, 36% of the surveyed Mechanical Turk workforce was Indian. of Indian workers were male, and 66% had at least a Bachelor's degree. had annual incomes less than $10,000/yr, with 27% sometimes or always depending on income from Mechanical Turk to make ends meet.

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Inside the Guide: Crowdsourcing, Wisdom of the crowd, Wired (magazine), Wikipedia, Tongal, Threadless, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Tag Challenge, Social collaboration, Social Terrain, reCAPTCHA, Panos Ipeirotis, Outsourcing, Open innovation, Microwork, Longitude prize, Life in a Day (2011 film), Jade Magnet, InnoCentive, Human-based computation, Distributed thinking, Digital sweatshop, Crowdsourcing creative work, Crowdcasting, Crowd funding, Crowd computing, CrowdFlower, Crowd, Collective intelligence, Clickworkers, Citizen science, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Aaron Koblin