Data scientists at Hivemind created 3 data labeling tasks and hired 2 teams to complete them. The differences in data accuracy, speed, and cost may surprise you.
![The 3 Hidden Costs of Crowdsourcing for Data Labeling](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/img/resources/scaling-white-paper.jpg)
Crowdsourcing seems to offer a cheap option for training machine learning models, but it’s rarely as inexpensive as it seems. Here are some of the hidden costs of the crowd.
![Scaling Quality Training Data: The Hidden Costs of the Crowd](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/cf-blogs-featured-hiddencostofcrowd-02-PNG.png)
Anonymous crowdsourcing is a common alternative to an in-house team for AI development. It can be a cheap option for training machine learning algorithms but it’s rarely as ...
![7 Ways CloudFactory is Different Than Crowdsourcing](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/04-blog-img/CF-vs-crowdsourcing-companies.png)
How CloudFactory is different from crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) to handle critical business processes that need to be done right.
![3 Ways to Create Value from Unstructured Data](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social%20%2810%29-3.png)
As the amount of unstructured data grows, it also creates new opportunities to create amazing value, better customer experiences and improvements to your organization.
![DIY vs. DIFM - The Choice in Data Work](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social%20%286%29-Nov-23-2020-07-57-52-39-PM.png)
As the amount of unstructured data rises, businesses need to make the right choice to handle this data work and choose the right on-demand workforce.
![Crowdsourcing Work and the Paradox of Trust](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social%20%282%29-Nov-23-2020-07-50-58-56-PM.png)
What are the pitfalls of crowdsourcing work to anonymous crowd? Choose the right on-demand workforce you can trust for your critical data work.
![CrowdHack - that's a wrap!](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social-3.png)
Apps are built on the top of CloudFactory at CrowdHack - crowdsourcing hackathon.
![Twilio sponsoring CrowdHack - let the real hacking begin!](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social-2.png)
If we could have dreamed of two perfect sponsors for CrowdHack it would have been GitHub and Twilio.
![5 things you get out of CrowdHack](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social-1.png)
CrowdHack is an excellent opportunity to get your hands dirty with some real crowdsourcing.
![GitHub teams up with CloudFactory for CrowdHack](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social%20%281%29-1.png)
GitHub teams up with CloudFactory for CrowdHack 2011.
![CloudFactory is organizing hackathon at CrowdConf](https://blog.cloudfactory.com/hubfs/Image%20Resizing%20for%20Blog%20and%20Social%20%282%29-3.png)
The hackathon will bring together crowd hackers and techies under one roof and give them a fun environment to get their hands dirty doing some crowdsourcing.