Mechanical Turk and Glue (Michelle Borkin)

Notes & Tweets

• 10:34:40

  Michelle Borkin (SEAS Harvard) talked about Crowdsourcing through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for data analysis and visualization in astronomy

• 10:35:35

  Talk on Glue package for python to create linked scientific visualizations by @michelle_borkin at #dotastro.

  
• 10:39:03

  Borkin – talking about amazon mechanical Turk – online crowdsourcing #dotastro

  
• 10:39:17

  Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

• 10:40:28

  David Hogg asked a question from the audience.

• 10:41:12

  Data visualization expert @michelle_borkin is using small caps for titles at #dotastro. This pleases me. #serifonlyinplotssofar

  
• 10:41:17

  .@michelle_borkin talking about mechanical Turk style crowdsourcing versus citizen science #dotastro

  
• 10:43:40

  Disagree with @michelle_borkin‘s dividing Turk-tasks & citizen science. Would say a subset of CS tasks are suitable for Turk. #dotastro

  
• 10:43:50

  Very interesting: @michelle_borkin describing www.mturk.com – make money from your time contributing to science #dotastro

  
• 10:44:05

  Interesting discussion of how to make scientific problems into simple problems that work for @amazonmturk from @michelle_borkin. #dotastro

  
• 10:44:17

  On the other hand, some astronomical tasks may be too boring for those motivated by interest (and so we need money) #dotastro

  
• 10:46:23

  I think citizen science can have controlled analysis & searches- can have simulations to measure detection efficiency biases #dotastro

  
• 10:47:50

  .@michelle_borkin invites #dotastro participants to see what it’s like to be a turker & participate in the study bit.ly/mturk_dotastronomy

  
• 10:48:42

  RT @vrooje: .@michelle_borkin invites #dotastro participants to see what it’s like to be a turker bit.ly/mturk_dotastronomy

  
• 10:49:54

  Turkers get paid. #dotastro participants will too *and* we get to see the results — if we participate! No promises on co-authorship.

  
• 10:52:34

  If you’re interested in looking at or working on #Python #Glue, links are on #dotastro

  
• 10:53:38

  glue demo – linking and visualization different databases glue-viz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html #dotastro

  
• 10:54:17

  http://bit.ly/mturk_dotastronomy

• 10:56:05

  Wondering how Glue and TOPCAT compare — can TOPCAT do images? How different are they? #dotastro

  
• 10:57:53

  Here’s the glue code for anyone interested: github.com/glue-viz/glue #dotastro