Mechanical Turk (Tool)

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Mechanical Turk (Tool)
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Description

The purpose of this page is to introduce people to the use of mechanical turk in data processing. The document is structured as follows: 1. It begins by describing the mechanical turk and the many ways in which it can be used. 2. it provides simple getting started instructions that allows a new user to access the mechanical turk system and begin a new project. 3. We give an example of a project with sample code.

What is Mechanical Turk

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Mechanical Turk Vocabulary

Requester: the people posting work on the system

HIT: one task completed by a worker

Project: a collection of HITs

Accessing the Mechanical Turk Platform

• go to The Mechanical Turk Requester page
• Log into the system using the following

email: esi@rice.edu

pass: 9Million!

• To create a new project, click on the Create link and follow the directions in the Create Project Example section below
• To modify an existing project, FINISH

Creating a New Project Example

In the steps below, we describe the creation of a Turk project that asks Turk workers to find the twitter handles of companies. It will take as input a series of google search queries in csv form and the workers to enter the search strings into google and look to see if there are google handles that are returned on the first page of the search results.

Step 1, Project Info: Once you click on the create link, you will be brought to an interface with a number of text entry boxes. You want to summarize your project in ways that will be informative for the team as well as potential Turk workers choosing between projects. In the figure below, we describe a HIT Project FINISH.

Figure 1: Twitter Project Info

How to choose your data

Step 2

Existing HIT Library

create a list of existing hits and what they do

TDL with HITS

• Data validation using javascript

Hash

import requests
response = requests.get(
    "https://www.eventbriteapi.com/v3/organizers/2300226659/events/",
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Bearer CRAQ5MAXEGHKEXSUSWXN",
    },
    verify = True,
)