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Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 11:07 AM UTC

Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds
approachio.com

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by unclesaamm » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 12:28 PM UTC

Just a thought- putting the login screen after the user submits an answer would increase overall participation

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 12:43 PM UTC

unclesaamm wrote: post #2

Just a thought- putting the login screen after the user submits an answer would increase overall participation

Might just be me but I generally feel deceived when a site does that, especially if the sign up form is huge.

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by ThomPete » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 12:46 PM UTC

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #3

unclesaamm wrote: post #2

Just a thought- putting the login screen after the user submits an answer would increase overall participation

Might just be me but I generally feel deceived when a site does that, especially if the sign up form is huge.

It might not just be you but I for once appreciate sites that let me "touch" the goods before I "pay".

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by spacefight » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 12:50 PM UTC

unclesaamm wrote: post #2

Just a thought- putting the login screen after the user submits an answer would increase overall participation

Click on login, click on email, hit enter -> anon loggedin.

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by secoif » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 1:09 PM UTC

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #3

unclesaamm wrote: post #2

Just a thought- putting the login screen after the user submits an answer would increase overall participation

Might just be me but I generally feel deceived when a site does that, especially if the sign up form is huge.

Is your sign up form huge?

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by zeratul » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 1:15 PM UTC

To Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis: could you make some of the data freely available to the Natural Language Processing community?

If this is something that interests people, then it will be worth the time to automate this process. I suspect that there are blog entries, twitts, facebook updates that already answer these questions. Now we have to mine them. "Gold standard" set of Q/A would make it easier.

EDIT: But I hope there will be a way of getting Q/A in a bulk, right? Thanks

NOTE TO SELF: This could be a data mining or text mining web app. Check if the interest grows in time.

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by etiennead » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 1:17 PM UTC

Try my app voicepolls.com, we are very much based on the theory of crowds. If you intend to pursue this further you should give us a call and try our API. We do predictive analysis and have a very large active community!

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 1:20 PM UTC

zeratul wrote: post #7

To Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis: could you make some of the data freely available to the Natural Language Processing community? If this is something that interests people, then it will be worth the time to automate this process. I suspect that there are blog entries, twitts, facebook updates that already answer these questions. Now we have to mine them. "Gold standard" set of Q/A would make it easier. EDIT: But I ho…

We will be releasing a .json endpoint for each question with all the meta data and results. Stay tuned!

Re: Approachio – Wisdom of the Crowds

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Post by harish_batla » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 1:59 PM UTC

How will the quality of your results be different from Wolfram alpha who do it without crowd sourcing of course but are quite good?