Shane Ahern’s Weblog

• Dolores Labs Blog » The Programming Language with the Happiest Users
  I decided to do a little market research. I scraped the top 150 most recent tweets on Twitter for the query “X language” where X was one of {COBOL, Ruby, Fortran, Python, Visual Basic, Perl, Java, Haskell, Lisp, C}.

  Then I asked three people on Amazon Mechanical Turk to verify that the tweet was on the topic. If so, I asked if the tweet seemed positive, negative or neutral.

  (tags: amazon mechanicalturk crowdsourcing user study)
• Smartsheet | Online Project Collaboration - Getting Good Smartsourcing Results (Amazon Mechanical Turk Best Practices)
  1) Test your question
  2) Demand a High Approval Rating and Pay Well
  3) Build a reputation and set a tone for your tolerance of what is acceptable work
  4) Submit work during the Daytime hours in the U.S.
  (tags: amazon mechanicalturk crowdsourcing research user study)

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