Package crowdUser

Contains classes allowing CPS to harness CrowdFlower's crowdsourced-obtained results as well as uploading new jobs. More...

Classes
class	CrowdManager
	Serves as an intermediary between the MySQLbase database in which HIT results are stored and CrowdFlower, our crowdsourcing provider. More...<../..>
class	Refiner
	Parses csv formatted raw results and allows their amelioration by get another label, a program designed by P Ipeirotis (a researcher in computer science specialized in crowdsourcing). More...<../..>

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Detailed Description

Contains classes allowing CPS to harness CrowdFlower's crowdsourced-obtained results as well as uploading new jobs.

CrowdUser provides two classes that have in common their close relation with the crowd, either communicationg directly with CrowdFlower (or an intermediary, the Antechamber) or dealing with its hard results. The classes crowdManager uses extensively HTTP protocol. An account to use CrowdFlower's "self-service" is necessary.

• CrowdManager

  This class is in charge of the direct communication with CrowdFlower, uploading HITs after receiving the data necessary, retrieving the results and sending them to a Refiner instance.

• Refiner

  Ameliorates the quality of the results obtained through the use of the crowd by using Ipeirotis and his students program get another label. It also provides several methods reading and parsing csv files.