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Made By Argon Web Designs. Airtasker / Get it done. Logo Design | Outsource/Freelance/Etc. Mechanical Turk vs oDesk: My experiences - A Computer Scientist in a Business School. [Necessary disclaimer: I work with the oDesk Research team as the "academic-in-residence. " The experiences that I describe in this blog post are the reason that I started working with oDesk. I am not writing this because I started working with oDesk. And at the end of the day, I doubt that oDesk needs my blog posts to get visibility :-)] A question that I receive often is how to structure tasks on Mechanical Turk for which it is necessary for the workers to pass training before doing the task.
My common answer to most such question is that Mechanical Turk is not the ideal environment for such tasks: When training and frequent interaction is required, an employer is typically better off by using a site such as oDesk to hire people for the long term to do the job. Mechanical Turk: The choice for short-term, bursty tasks Mechanical Turk tends to shine in cases where demand is super bursty. The blessing and curse of the long tail The task listing interface interferes with task completion times. Mechanical Turk. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence.
The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications. While computing technology continues to improve, there are still many things that human beings can do much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings or researching data details. Traditionally, tasks like this have been accomplished by hiring a large temporary workforce (which is time consuming, expensive and difficult to scale) or have gone undone. Mechanical Turk aims to make accessing human intelligence simple, scalable, and cost-effective.
Amazon Mechanical Turk provides access to a marketplace of workers whenever your business needs them. Freelance Web Designer and Web Developers for Hire at Freelancify.com.