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by john_horton 15y ago
This is interesting - do you have a good academic reference for that summarizes this literature? Maybe like a handbook chapter?
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Chrome and Mac users really are smarter than IE users(andrewgelman.com)
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by john_horton 15y ago
Agreed - but I think there are enough unbalanced forces within most organizations towards the "let's a have meeting" solution to problems that this is making a "ha, ha, only serious" point that resonates.
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by john_horton 15y ago
It's been done (though instead of money, candy and instead of the urban poor, UC Berkeley CS students): http://hci.berkeley.edu/cs260-fall10/images/b/ba/FinalPaper-...
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by john_horton 15y ago
We'll have to disagree about the axes---I think the choice of where to start axes depends on what you're trying to illustrate. For me, absolute differences in wages was what I wanted highlight. Re: Standard error bars - you're absolutely ri
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by john_horton 15y ago
1) The data are what they are - these are the rates people are charging by listed skill. It would be very interesting to look at prices by actual completed projects, but that's just another approach one can take. 2) I make it very clear tha
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by john_horton 15y ago
You're right---there's nothing about the demand side yet. That's my next blog post. I'll show the earned wages by skill and some measures of demand & trade volume in different skills.
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by john_horton 15y ago
So my anecdotal impression is that the most successful freelancers learn to get very picky about who they work with---they want to see a verified payment method (esp. if the client is proposing a fixed-price contract), a history of hires an
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High-wage skills on oDesk (or why non-lawyers might want to learn Clojure)(onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
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Why aren't we all freelancers? (onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
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by john_horton 15y ago
The first link to DuckDuckGo on the page is a link to Google's main search page. Typo or some joke I'm not getting?
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by john_horton 15y ago
yep - and I agree about the dubiousness (see my comment above).
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by john_horton 15y ago
Thanks - a few responses: 1. For that/which: http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaThat_Versus... I should note that some of these "rules" are bogus (a point made by Williams) and are regularly broken by great writers. Williams
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by john_horton 15y ago
yeah - sorry. I'll add a GPL notice to the repository tomorrow.
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Writing Smell Detector (WSD) - a tool for finding problematic writing(onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
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Using networkx to make a graph of Google auto-suggest stereotypes about animals(onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
1 points by john_horton 15y ago|0 comments
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by john_horton 15y ago
On the data science models => production code problem, could PMML< http://www.dmg.org/pmml-v3-0.html&#62 ; be (part) of the answer? Anyone have any experience using it?
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Javascript Demonstration of the Glicko Rating System(glittle.org)
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Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
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by john_horton 15y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by john_horton 15y ago
Actually, that's my fault. We (oDesk) recently introduced a job post text parser that examines the text of the job description and auto-suggests skills. The parser uses the levenshtein distance to find approximate matches, and in the cases
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by john_horton 15y ago
For a little background on this debate: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~jdf/papers/farmer0606.pdf
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Should online labor markets impose a minimum wage? (onlinelabor.blogspot.com)
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by john_horton 15y ago
This is exactly what prompted us making this thing---some of my co-workers at oDesk were talking about how dissatisfied we are with the whole 1-10/NPS score way of getting feedback. As far as the slider---my motivation was that humans are s
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Smiley Slider(glittle.org)
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by john_horton 15y ago
This is why there's a huge literature in economics on trying to measure the causal impact of more schooling. They've used everything from state-level changes in compulsory schooling laws, proximity to college, changes in grants policies, va
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by john_horton 15y ago
That regression (which is called a mincerian wage equation & economists have been running it for about 40 years) will give you the average percentage increase in earnings (if you do it in logs) from another year of education. That avera
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by john_horton 15y ago
FWIW, this is apparent in the data as well---employers are price sensitive, but not nearly as price sensitive as people might think. They good employers aren't stupid and realize you get what you pay for. In fact, the number of one predicto
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by john_horton 15y ago
I think he's essentially correct on the macro trends that will move the world more to this kind of model. On the specific point on what's holding back a more distributed/networked model of production, I think one obstacle is that labor is n
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by john_horton 15y ago
But isn't their ability to make money for the company exactly what determines demand for engineers (or any worker for that matter)?

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