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Updates to our Java SDK
Today we released a version update to our Java SDK, taking it from 1.6.2 to 1.7.0 and adding support for the latest Mechanical Turk API WSDL. You can download the SDK from its SourceForge repository, or learn more. This update brings the following changes: Improved support for Qualifications using new... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2016 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Introducing Mechanical Turk API support for IAM credentials
Mechanical Turk is pleased to announce an improvement to the Mechanical Turk API. You can now use the Mechanical Turk API without using your root AWS account credentials to authenticate requests. This is made possible with AWS Identity Access Management (IAM). To get started, please review our Getting Started Guide.... Continue reading
Posted Dec 24, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Simplified Masters Qualifications
The Mechanical Turk Masters Program is designed to give Requesters access to a specialized group of Workers who consistently demonstrate accuracy in performing a wide range of HITs. Today, we are taking steps to consolidate and simplify the Masters program into a single, unified Qualification. As part of these changes,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 17, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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A simpler, more intuitive checkout experience for purchasing Prepaid HITs
Posted Dec 3, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Leveraging Mechanical Turk for help with Machine Learning datasets
Machine learning models can generate valuable predictive analytics, but you need to start with a labeled set of training data to build the model. We thought this CloudAcademy blog post presented a great example of how anyone can leverage Amazon Mechanical Turk to generate low cost, high quality datasets from... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Researchers turn to Amazon Mechanical Turk as valuable data collection tool
We wanted to share this Financial Times Magazine article (subscription required) that explores the use of Mechanical Turk to quickly conduct research on large groups of subjects. “Psychologists, behavioural economists and political scientists have now realised that it is potentially far cheaper to pay MTurk workers — “Turkers” — to... Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Audiokite – Helping Music Artists Get Fast, Actionable Market Insights
We wanted to highlight an exciting and novel use of the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowd. Audiokite helps musicians create the best possible music through the power of research, powered by Mechanical Turk. It works like this: An artist wants to get feedback on a song. Audiokite plays this song for... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Following-up on our Commission Structure
In a previous post, we mentioned that we were examining our commission structure. Today we published changes to the Mechanical Turk commission structure for Requesters. These changes will help allow Amazon to continue growing the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace and innovating on behalf of our customers. The current pricing will... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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CSV File Upload Validation Enhancement
If you’ve ever had trouble uploading a CSV file to Mechanical Turk, help is on its way. We’ve recently updated the data ingestion feature to improve error handling. You’ll get faster diagnostic information to correct any errors in your file. When Requesters select an input CSV file to publish their... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Bringing Future Innovation to Mechanical Turk
A Brief History Amazon Mechanical Turk launched publicly in 2005 as Earth's first crowdsourcing platform for microtasks. These are small jobs that are often extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer. Completing these jobs at scale helps solve a range of problems including categorization, moderation, sentiment analysis,... Continue reading
Posted May 21, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Mechanical Turk Service Health Dashboard
Mechanical Turk recently launched a dedicated Service Health Dashboard for our services on the Requester and Worker websites. The Service Health Dashboard communicates both general service availabilities and events that impact our customers. You can find the Service Health Dashboard on https://www.mturk.com/status or via the web page footer on any... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Crowdsourcing speech rating data through Mechanical Turk
We came across Professor Tara McAllister Byun’s video on her use of Mechanical Turk for clinical studies involving speech ratings. Watch this seven minute video to learn how expert raters and raters crowdsourced through Mechanical Turk performed, as well as the other benefits she realized through the wisdom of crowds. Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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System Qualification Enhancements - US State Qualifications
Mechanical Turk now supports US state locations in addition to country locations as system qualifications in the Requester UI and API. Requesters can use US state qualifications to specify the states in which Workers must be registered to complete their HITs. Requesters can specify one or many US states when... Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Top Image Systems’ eFLOW CrowdBridge Voted One of Three Best ECM Solutions of 2014
Mechanical Turk Technology Partner Top Image Systems (TIS) recently announced that its innovative crowdsourcing solution, eFLOW® CrowdBridge, has been nominated as one of the three best Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions of 2014 by an independent panel of industry experts at the 2014 annual ECM Day held in Baden, Switzerland... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2015 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Helpful Blog Posts To Help You Design Your HITs
A well-designed HIT can improve Worker participation, accuracy, and throughput. We have written a series of blog posts on the subjects of how-to, HIT design, tips & tricks, and HIT critiques to help Requesters design their HITs. This post compiles a list of some of the most popular posts, making... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Webinar: Learn How EnBW Uses Crowdsourcing to Lower Costs and Accelerate Processes
Join AWS Technology Partner TIS & Amazon in this highly anticipated webinar featuring EnBW, one of the largest energy suppliers in Europe, and their experience with the crowd. When: Wednesday, November 19, 8:30am - 9:30 am CST Speakers: Dr. Torsten Zytowski, IT Project Manager, EnBW John Hoskins, Sr Manager, Amazon... Continue reading
Posted Nov 13, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Ted Talk - What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
Chalk this up as another clever use case. Watch how Lorrie Faith Cranor of Carnegie Mellon University sourced 5000 passwords on Mechanical Turk for her research study on pa$$words. And kudos to Turkers who participated in this study (fast forward to around 14:20): ... The other interesting thing that we... Continue reading
Posted Nov 10, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Hosting Your HIT Images Using Amazon S3
In this tutorial we'll walk you through the steps to host your HITs' images using Amazon S3. This tutorial assumes you are already comfortable including images in your HITs but need a place to store them. If you are not sure how to include images in your HITs please read... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Assessing risk in pre-emptive shipping program using 'artificial artificial intelligence'
We came across this Q&A with Igor Ebert on techtarget.com that we want to share. Read how Workers on Mechanical Turk help Gilt know what to ship before you buy it. Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Editing the Moderation of an Image Template
Requesters who have images that they need evaluated by Workers against a set of guidelines can use the Moderation of an Image project template. This blog post outlines the steps you can take to customize this project template. Designing HIT Instructions The Moderation of an Image template contains sample instructions... Continue reading
Posted Sep 25, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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New Qualification Comparators Add Greater Flexibility to Qualifications
We’re excited to announce three new Qualification Comparators available in the Mechanical Turk API. The new Comparators, which include In, NotIn, and DoesNotExist, provide Requesters greater flexibility in targeting HITs to specific Workers. A Comparator is an element of the QualificationRequirement data structure that represents the type of comparison made... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Editing Project Templates that Include Images
Requesters frequently use Mechanical Turk for image-related tasks, including moderating, tagging, or transcribing text from images. For Requesters using the UI, Mechanical Turk offers project templates that make it easier for Requesters to design and publish HITs for these types of tasks. In this post, we will highlight some tips... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Editing the Survey Link Project Template in the UI
Requesters frequently conduct surveys with Workers from Mechanical Turk, often using online survey solutions, such as Qualtrics or SurveyMonkey to collect responses. The Survey Link project template in the Mechanical Turk UI makes it easier for Requesters to design and publish HITs that link to surveys hosted on third-party sites.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Learn “What’s on the Horizon” in Digital Asset Management
Posted Apr 22, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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Learn “What’s on the Horizon” in Digital Asset Management
Posted Apr 21, 2014 at The Mechanical Turk Blog
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