Editing Human Centered Data Science (Fall 2018)/Assignments
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The first step is getting the data, which lives in several different places. The wikipedia dataset can be found [https://figshare.com/articles/Untitled_Item/5513449 on Figshare]. Read through the documentation for this repository, then download and unzip it. | The first step is getting the data, which lives in several different places. The wikipedia dataset can be found [https://figshare.com/articles/Untitled_Item/5513449 on Figshare]. Read through the documentation for this repository, then download and unzip it. | ||
The population data is on [ | The population data is on the [http://www.prb.org/DataFinder/Topic/Rankings.aspx?ind=14 Population Research Bureau website]. Download this data as a CSV file (hint: look for the 'Microsoft Excel' icon in the upper right). | ||
==== Getting article quality predictions ==== | ==== Getting article quality predictions ==== | ||
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For this assignment, you will go undercover as a member of the Amazon Mechanical Turk community. You will preview or perform Mechanical Turk tasks (called "HITs"), lurk in Turk worker discussion forums, and write an ethnographic account of your experience as a crowdworker, and how this experience changes your understanding of the phenomenon of crowdwork. | For this assignment, you will go undercover as a member of the Amazon Mechanical Turk community. You will preview or perform Mechanical Turk tasks (called "HITs"), lurk in Turk worker discussion forums, and write an ethnographic account of your experience as a crowdworker, and how this experience changes your understanding of the phenomenon of crowdwork. | ||
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The full assignment description is available in PDF form [[:File:HCDS_A4_Crowdwork_ethnography.pdf|here]]. | |||
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=== A4: Final project plan === | === A4: Final project plan === |