Examples of using Computation projects in English and their translations into Romanian
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Human computation projects take a big problem;
Galaxy Zoo shows the evolution of many human computation projects.
Human computation projects combine the work of many non-experts to solve easy-task-big-scale problems.
Table 5.1: Examples of human computation projects in social research.
How does this impact your thoughts about the design, quality, andethics of human computation projects?
This comparison shows that,as with Galaxy Zoo, human computation projects can produce high quality results.
Now I can also highlight two important differences between open call projects and human computation projects.
This comparison shows that, as with Galaxy Zoo, human computation projects can produce high-quality results.
In the human computation projects that I have discussed in the chapter, participants were aware of what was happening.
It is these easy-for-people yet hard-for-computers micro-tasks that we can turn over to human computation projects.
Human computation projects take a big problem, break it into simple pieces, send them to many workers, and then aggregate the results.
Now I can also highlight two important differences between open call projects and human computation projects.
Two clever human computation projects that I did not have space to discuss are the ESP Game(Ahn and Dabbish 2004) and reCAPTCHA(Ahn et al. 2008).
It is these easy-for-people yethard-for-computers microtasks that we can turn over to human computation projects.
Human computation projects combine the work of many non-experts to solve easy-task-big-scale problems that are not easily solved by computers.
Given this background, we can now see how Galaxy Zoo follows the split-apply-combine recipe,the same recipe that is used for most human computation projects.
Human computation projects combine the work of many non-experts to solve easy-task-big-scale problems that are not easily solved by computers.
This table shows that, unlike Galaxy Zoo,many other human computation projects use micro-task labor markets(e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk).
Given this background, you can now see how GalaxyZoo follows the split-apply-combine recipe, the same recipe that is used for most human computation projects.
Human computation projects combine the efforts of many people working on simple microtasks in order to solve problems that are impossibly big for one person.
The term“split-apply-combine” was used by Wickham(2011) to describe a strategy for statistical computing, butit perfectly captures the process of many human computation projects.
Human computation projects combine the efforts of many people working on simple micro-tasks in order to solve problems that are impossibly big for one person.
Because very similar challenges arise in most human computation projects, it is helpful to briefly review the three steps that the Galaxy Zoo researchers used to produce their consensus classifications.
In social research, human computation projects are most likely to be used in situations where researchers want to classify, code, or label images, video, or texts.
This table shows that, unlike Galaxy Zoo,many other human computation projects use microtask labor markets(e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) and rely on paid workers rather than volunteers.
In social research, human computation projects are most likely to be used in situations where researchers want to classify, code, or label images, video, or texts.
Because very similar challenges arise in most human computation projects, it is helpful to briefly review the three steps that the Galaxy Zoo researchers used to produce their consensus classifications.
Galaxy Zoo, and other human computation projects, typically use a split-apply-combine strategy(Wickham 2011), and once you understand this strategy you will be able to use it to solve lots of problems.
I call this a computer-assisted human computation project because, rather than having humans solve a problem, it has humans build a dataset that can be used to train a computer to solve the problem.
The prototypical example of a human computation project is Galaxy Zoo.
