Microtask Crowdsourcing Has Been Applied In Many Fields

This process is two fold. First, the model learns the different aspects that are distributed over a set of decided words and also learn their scores. Second, the model forecasts the aspects of the user for an item for a future review. For the first step, a vector of user preferences of aspects of an item, a vector of aspects of an item are used. The Dot product of the two vectors are used for the prediction step.

Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3 once quoted, “Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.” This quote suggests the idea that human interaction is better than relying on the internet for answers and companionship. However, sometimes the internet is easier and more peaceful. Even though there are many challenges of human interactions that can prevent people from getting along, there are also many ways that people can overcome those challenges.

My area of interest is GIS where in an article titled “Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowd sourcing Disaster Relief: A Case Study of the Haitian Earthquake” which can be found at this link here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2216649.

• Team Learning—transforming conversational and collective thinking skills, so that groups of people can reliably develop intelligence and ability greater than the sum of individual members’ talents.

Internet plays an important role to collect people all over the world. People in social media present their opinion freely in several aspects, such as political, economics, entertainment, even their life experience. Clay Shirky mentions the example of Ushahidi. There is violence in Kenya after its election in 2007. At that time, the government announces a blackout of social media. People in Kenya cannot get the information about what happened in their country and where is the violence. Thus, there are two programmers lunch Ushahidi, which can locate the place of violence and let the public know. When people realize the Ushahidi are useful in their life, Ushahidi becomes a public platform to transmit the current event and uses in people’s daily life. People like to invent new things in order to make their life easier. People are not only concern to maximize their self-interest. People pay more attention on the society and eager to make contribution to this world. The cognitive surplus makes people selfless to the

Using the internet for daily challenges can affect the way we think on how to solve problems. Us humans rely so much on the internet that when we don’t understand something, we automatically turn to search engines like “Google”. A research was conducted in source #1 and they found that, “What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly. It’s our ability to think deeply about that information.” These researchers know that we indeed have a problem right now, which is technology. What people don’t know is that search engines prevent us from thinking deeply and does not allow us to develop our critical thinking. Learning should be done by researching

Technology has tremendously changed human social behavior, which has provided a convenient way for people to communicate and collaborate with each other. For instance, Cathy Davidson, the author of “Project Classroom Makeover,” points out, there is a need to renew the current education system so that it meets the new expectation of the digital era. She discusses how technology improves social interaction when students work collectively through crowdsourcing. In “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” Steven Johnson provides the example of the complex systems in ant colonies, cities of Manchester and Internet by emphasizing the importance of collective working that intelligence emerges when people work together. On the other side, Sherry Turkle argues that technology has turned human beings become isolated. In her article “Alone Together: Why We Expect A Lot from Technology and Less from Each Other,” she discusses how humanity is transformed into a “robotic’ moment due to technology. Therefore, technology does not only help to form collective learning and social interaction that can provide an adequate platform for sharing social values, but also isolate people from each other if they rely too much on technology.

Through centuries of technological advancements, the sharing of information has become painless process. Improvements in computers and smartphones allow for the nearly instantaneous retrieval of answers for curious and questioning minds. However, it is not in the sharing of information that there lies a problem. Rather, it is the ability of the researchers and academics to appropriately communicate their findings to others that is troublesome.

There are several factors that can increase social loafing which includes: lack of identifiability, no individual evaluation, no individual or group standards of evaluation, task is easy, boring or same as others, individual contributions not necessary, no individual or group incentives, large group and unfamiliar group. On the other hand, there are also factors that can reduce social loafing such as: individual identifiability, individual or group evaluation, individual or group standards of evaluation, task is difficult, interesting or different from others, individual contributions essential, individual or group incentives, small group and familiar group (Kendra Cherry,

The authors of [1] aim to dispel some of the current hype surrounding big data, mainly the misnomer that it is all about technology and the process is automated. In fact there are three critical elements requiring human expertise 1) the data must be the right kind, of sufficient quantity, and clean 2) a specific process must be followed for success starting with the identification of the objective 3) expert humans who know how to use the technology, execute the big data process, and perform the mining tasks which require significant mathematical calculations.

Humans are social beings who organize themselves into groups that share a common interest and are essential for discovering, developing meaning, and self-worth. Groups are important for everyday work, and they work toward achieving a goal. Groups increase the information of one person by combining ideas and knowledge. They can also help people in their social life through interacting with other people and bypassing their comfort zone. Not much work can be done alone, whereas a group can help solve problems and assist each other in work. Our group shows example of docile, zealous, humble, and diligent whether it be in our group or each members and everyone contribute to keep the group working.

On a remarkably warm September day for Middlebury, VT, as I and a friend walked to the dining hall engrossed waist-deep in a conversation about the cost of college attendance, he furiously stated “I might just actually start a GoFundMe to be able to buy books for class; they’re so expensive.” Remarking at the veracity of the statement and the absurdity of starting a crowdsourcing website, we both laughed. I thought Jason didn’t really mean it, he had laughed it off. But maybe he did.

The Internet can be such a wonderful and useful tool to help gather information or explore new and different ideas. However, humans are not using the Internet to the

You would like to volunteer your team for this task. What would you need to consider before doing this?

Citizen science is the collaboration of the scientific community directing volunteers in data collection efforts. In a citizen science program the scientist maintains a leadership position and directs all actions according to the scientific need. Citizen science relies on the individual’s, or groups, motivation to perform the required tasks. Citizen science programs are generally focused around data gathering. The volunteers must be trained in sound scientific practices in order to ensure the highest quality data possible. These programs allow for the scientific community to harvest larger quantities of data and allow the volunteers to become active members in the scientific community.