5.4 Crowdsourcing HW - Lars #10
Description
Popcorn Hack 1.)
Crowdfunding
Crowd Creation
Crowd Voting
Crowd Wisdom
Popcorn Hack 2.)
Data crowdsourcing is when a large group of people help collect or create data. It helps open-source projects by providing real-world information that anyone can use to build or improve tools and software.
Ex:
Google Maps – A crowdsourced map of the world created by volunteers who add roads, buildings, and landmarks.
Wikipedia – While not a traditional dataset, its open, crowd-edited articles are used for language models, knowledge graphs, and more.
Instagram – A platform where users post and interact with other posts.
Popcorn Hack 3.)
Distributed computing is when many computers work together on a shared task, often over the internet. It helps crowdsourcing by letting people donate their computer power to solve big problems faster, leading to faster discoveries and innovations.
HW Hack:
Crowdsourcing is important today because it lets people all over the world help solve problems by sharing ideas, data, or computer power. There are different types, like sharing creative ideas, doing small online tasks, raising money, or collecting data. Distributed computing makes crowdsourcing even stronger by letting people donate their computer’s power to help with big projects, like scientific research. Data crowdsourcing also helps open-source development by creating public datasets that anyone can use to build better tools and software. In the future, crowdsourcing could lead to even more innovation by bringing people together to solve problems faster and more creatively.