mturk_workers — Amazon Mechanical Turk worker communication network (2015)
- Description
The communication network among workers of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online crowdsourcing labor market, mapped by Yin et al. Workers were recruited with a task posted on MTurk in August and September 2015, open to all workers, which was completed by 10,354 workers (approximately a census of the active workers at the time). Each worker created an anonymous nickname, and then self-reported the other workers with whom they communicate (for instance through online forums dedicated to MTurk, or one-on-one channels such as e-mail, text messages or social media), by searching for their nicknames; workers could keep adding or removing edges after completing the task, and the network corresponds to the data collected on September 13, 2015. Each node is a worker, and an undirected edge connects two workers if one of them reported communicating with the other. Most workers (86.6%) did not report any connection and are isolated nodes. The worker attributes analyzed in the paper (country, forum use, etc.) are not included in the public data.
- Tags
- Social Online Communication Unweighted
- Citation
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- M. Yin, M. L. Gray, S. Suri, J. W. Vaughan, "The Communication Network Within the Crowd." Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 1293-1303 (2016) 10.1145/2872427.2883036 Sci-Hub
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- https://mingyin.org/
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- $\left<k\right>$
- Mean degree
- $\sigma_k$
- Standard deviation of the degrees
- $\lambda_h$
- Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
- $\tau$
- Random walk mixing time
- $r$
- Degree assortativity
- $c$
- Global clustering coefficient
- $\oslash$
- (Pseudo-) diameter
- $S$
- Relative size of the largest component
- NPs
- Node properties
- EPs
- Edge properties
- Ridiculograms*
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