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Comment on Building Topic Models through Selective Document Exclusion by peter organisciak » Blog Archive » Academic Experience

peter organisciak » Blog Archive » Academic Experience — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:16:18 +0000

[...] Efron, Miles, Peter Organisciak, and Katrina Fenlon. “Building Topic Models in a Federated Digital Library Through Selective Document Exclusion.” ASIS&T Annual Meeting. New Orleans, USA. October 2011.Best paper award. (..Details) [...]

Comment on On the Motivations of Crowds by Crowdsourcing Project – Summary of Crowdsourcing Literature « Euge Ortiz

Crowdsourcing Project – Summary of Crowdsourcing Literature « Euge Ortiz — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:06:07 +0000

[...] the discussion on achievements , but in the scope of my research, I found that achievements are nearly always a secondary motivator, strengthening the motivation of somebody already engaged rather than standing on their [...]

Comment on Amazon creates a human machine with Mechanical Turk by peter organisciak » Blog Archive » Crowdsourcing Swift

peter organisciak » Blog Archive » Crowdsourcing Swift — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:37:10 +0000

[...] Earlier this week I led a class on the topic of Crowdsourcing. Since our discussion was focused primarily on Human Computation research, I took the opportunity to show a live demonstration of Mechanical Turk. [...]

Comment on Motivation of Crowds: The Incentives That Make Crowdsourcing Work by Crowdsourcing: Deciding Whether or Not to Use Incentives « Ideavibes Blog

Crowdsourcing: Deciding Whether or Not to Use Incentives « Ideavibes Blog — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:11:25 +0000

[...] to participate in something they find fun or interesting. The Crowdstorming article “Motivation of Crowds: The Incentives That Make Crowdsourcing Work” discusses what author Peter Organisciak calls the “goodwill factor”: [...]

Comment on Blog Consolidation by Richard

Richard — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:01:59 +0000

Sad that this is what academia does to us. My blog took the same nose-dive when I started the PhD program. It’s been nice lately to have a little side project to write about. I’ll be interested to see how this changes over our careers. S

Comment on Motivation of Crowds: The Incentives That Make Crowdsourcing Work by Startup your Motives : great tips for crowdsourcing web | Ahm' Sayin

Startup your Motives : great tips for crowdsourcing web | Ahm' Sayin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:31 +0000

[...] a PhD student studying Digital Humanities at the University of Illionois and author one of the simplest guides to learning how to motivate crowds on the web for a better understanding of the concepts. “When Jeff coined the term, people ran away [...]

Comment on 270-Unit Sonobe Ball by Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:07:24 +0000

Do you know how to make a 24 unite sonobe ball?
I want to make one for my teacher.

Comment on 270-Unit Sonobe Ball by Peter

Peter — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:01:27 +0000

You have to fold a bunch of Sonobe modules ( see https://www.math.lsu.edu/~verrill/origami/tetraunit/sonobe1.gif ) and connect them in a particular way.

This one is achieved by arranging the modules into hexagons and pentagons. Note how around the center of every series of triangles there’s six or five of them (usually six). All the pentagons have two clusters of hexagons between them.

Here’s a page with some guiding photos and more explanation: http://nuwen.net/poly.html.

Comment on 270-Unit Sonobe Ball by Jared

Jared — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:45:22 +0000

Neat! How did you learn to make one of these?

Comment on Incidents at Stanley Milner Library by Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:52:50 +0000

Nicely done! I couldn’t quite decide on the best way to show the scale. I like your approach!