GraphLab Conference 2014 Keynote - Carlos Guestrin
Product Success - Mechanical Turk
1. Mechanical Turk - Human
Powered Software
Let’s work with
the machines
SIVA MANIKANTESWARAN
2. How will you automate this?
“There is nothing quite
so useless as doing
with great efficiency
something that should
not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
5. Do you know?
"Human Intelligence Tasks".
For example
Choosing the best among several photographs of a
store-front
writing product descriptions
Identifying performers on music CDs
Crowd Sourcing vs. Mechanical Turk?
6. Using Mechanical Turk in
cv-web-annotation-toolkit
Alex Sorokin of University of Illinois
Collection and Classification of data (Images)
If you're a researcher collecting a data set, you can use this toolkit
to submit images to Mechanical Turk and pay people to label them
for you
Teach the robot where your refrigerator and dishwasher are, what
your cups look like, or where your power outlets are
7. Where 2.0 - Spatial Analysis of
Tweets using Hadoop, Pig, Python
& Mechanical Turk
Peter Skomoroch, Entrepreneur, Data Scientist, & Product Leader
Process tweets with location data using Hadoop cluster interactive
Pig session with MapReduce
Match the exact location with geonames data using python
Standardize remaining location strings with Mechanical Turk
Developed Conservatives/Liberals classification of Geo Locations
Working on Tweet phrases associated with high crime areas to
predict real time level of criminal activity based on Tweets
