AWS News Blog

Bay Area Amazon Mechanical Turk Meetup

On May 18th, 2010, we’ll be conducting a Mechanical Turk Meetup in Palo Alto, California. The event will run from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM at the Garden Court Hotel and is sponsored by AT&T Interactive.

You’ll here from Donghui Feng, Research Scientist for AT&T Interactive. He’ll talk about the use of the Mechanical Turk for data extraction and data analysis. Following his talk will  be Neil Symes, Director of Listing Quality at AT&T Interactive.

Next on the roster will be Omar Alonso of Microsoft. He will talk about experiment design and execution, and will gthen present some guidelines for data preparation, interface design, quality control, and scheduling.

A member of the Mechanical Turk team will also be speaking.

Attendance is free but space is limited and you need to register.

— Jeff;

PS – If you can’t attend, check out some of our on-demand case studies.

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.