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Floozy Speak!: Valley of the Turks
Here is another research look at why Turkers participate: “They are motivated by fun and by fast cash.” Corroborates Panos’ findings in his MT demographics blog post.
Visualization of Clinton & Obama primary results
This is an awesome visualization: it breaks down the demographics of [...]
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities - ReadWriteWeb
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs …
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Boxplots in Excel
Although this site is from the mid-1990s, it is a great how-to for creating your *very own* box plot in Excel!
10 great places to be steeped in tea, tradition and comfort
Top tea shops in the US.
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Cockatoo’s extremely rare sense of rhythm may help explain how the brain relates to music
This is an awesome story of a neuroscientist who discovered Snowball, the Internet famous cockatoo whose favorite song is “Everybody” (Backstreet Boys). Scientist Patel theorized that “only certain types of brains can achieve musical [...]
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“The Largest Social Network Ever Analyzed”
This is a short report of a study on “the largest social network ever analyzed.”
How Do You Use Twitter? on Vimeo
This is a great little video describing how some people are using Twitter. Something I was thinking of doing at one point…
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