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At the time, AWS was about 100 people (when you were on call, you were on call for all of AWS), Amazon had just hit 10,000, S3 was still in private beta, and EC2 was a whitepaper.
What did you create with MTurk and the incredibly patient hard-working workforce behind it?
Most of the work was done by one person - i think she was a woman in the Midwest, it's been like 15-years so the details are hazy. A few recipes were transcribed by people overseas but they didn't stick at it. I had to reject only one transcription.
I used mturk in some work projects too but those were boring and maybe also a little unethical (basically paying people 0.50 to give us all of their Facebook graph data, for example.)
None of the companies I've worked for have used it AFAIK, despite them all using AWS. I think I've mostly ignored it as one of the niche AWS products that isn't relevant.
[0] https://blog.mturk.com/weve-made-it-easier-for-more-requeste...
The idea was that the Prosper data set contained all of the information that a lending officer would have, but they also had user-submitted pictures. We wanted to see if there was value in the information conveyed in the pictures. For example, if they had a puppy or a child in the picture, did this increase the probability that the loan would get funded? That sort of thing. It was a very fun project!
Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1343275