CrowdFlower

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2015 by Lukas Biewald · said 26 times in 6 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Sep 14, 2015
Disclosure
CrowdFlower pays all global crowd workers the same flat compensation rate
“We pay everyone the same regardless of what country you come in from.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 19:13 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thirty percent of CrowdFlower's crowdsourced workforce is based in the US
“It's also 30% US-based.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 19:28 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015
Disclosure
CrowdFlower supplied raw Apple Watch survey data to journalists instead of PR
“Instead of sending out to journalists the our, like, the crowd flower analysis, we actually sent them the data and kind of let them draw their own conclusions.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 9:57 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015
Disclosure
CrowdFlower spent just $100 to collect 10,000 initial color labels
“We collected that data. It maybe cost us a hundred bucks to get 10,000 labels.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 6:55 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015
Disclosure
CrowdFlower charges a platform fee plus up to a 20% take rate
“We have a platform fee to use our software, and then we take a, up to a 20% cut of the work that, that flows through our platform.”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 22:41 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Increasing dataset accuracy from 90% to 95% repeatedly halves error rates
“So this is my same data set that I published online, but if you take it from 90% to 95%, you actually have the error rate, and then going up to a hundred percent, you have it again, right?”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 4:43 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CrowdFlower claims to have the largest dataset determining if images are funny
“We have a gigantic, maybe the biggest data set available on, isn't image funny?”
Lukas Biewald Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 14:12 Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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