Making collective wisdom wiser: Researcher develops methods to automatically optimize 'crowd-sourcing'
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 13:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Many popular sites, such as Wikipedia and Tripadvisor, rely on public participation to gather information a process known as crowd data sourcing. While this kind of collective intelligence is often valuable, it is also fallible, and policing such sites for inaccuracies and offensive material is a costly undertaking.