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{{McNair ProjectsProject|Project TitleHas project output=Mechanical Turk (Tool),Guide|Topic AreaHas sponsor=Entrepreneurship Ecosystems,McNair Center|OwnerHas title=Daniel Fehder,Mechanical Turk (Tool)|Start TermHas start date=Summer 2016,|StatusHas keywords=Tool|Has project status=Active,Complete
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==Description==
In the steps below, we describe the creation of a Turk project that asks Turk workers to find the twitter handles of companies. It will take as input a series of google search queries in csv form and the workers to enter the search strings into google and look to see if there are google handles that are returned on the first page of the search results.
'''Step 1, Geting Started:'''Click on Create link on the home page. It will bring you to the page that has all the existing projects.
Figure 1: Existing Projects
[[File: Create.png|800px]]
'''Step 2: Choosing Project Type:''' Click on New Project link and you will be brought to a page that asked you to choose a project type. That sis, whether you want your project to be a survey or data collection or any other format. There will be an example project in this type once you click on the link. Figure 2 is an example of data collection project.
Figure 2: Data Collection Example
 
[[File: ChooseType.png|800px]]
 '''Step 5, Worker Requirement:''' To be updated by Dan                 '''Step 6, Design Layout:''' At this point, you have to design what the turker sees when they receive your assignment. While it is possible that one turker will complete multiple HITs, it is important to design the HIT so that it can be easily completed the first (and possibly only) time by the worker. In figure 5, below, you can see the initial design layout of the default data acquisition project in the turk system. It is an example HIT that asks turkers to find the website of a restaurant. Please note that this is not a great HIT in terms of the level of clarity of the instructions. We will provide guidelines on creating instructions below. For now, just notice a few features of the HIT. To the right of "Restaurant Name", there is a field called ${name}. This is actually a hook, or a blanks space, that will be populated with the actual name of a restaurant that will come from a spread sheet that you will upload into the turk system. Each HIT will correspond to one row of the spreadsheet. This is the same for the "Address" and "Phone Number" rows. The last key thing to notice is the "Website Address" field with a text entry box right below it. When a turker receives this HIT, they will paste the web address into this text box and you will receive a new spreadsheet with whatever they (add all the other turkers) pasted in the same row as the data you used to populate each HIT.
'''Step 67, Publishing a Batch:''' Now that you have your HIT Template ready, you can post to the Turk system. To do so, Click the "Publish Batch" button in figure 8. It will then ask you to upload a csv file for that batch. Remember that this CSV file has to have headers that correspond to the data hooks in your template. Once you have successfully uploaded, you should be able to confirm payment and publish the batch. If there is not enough money preloaded on the turk system. Notify either Dan or Ed.
Figure 8: HIT Publishing{{clear}}
[[File: PublishBatch.png]]
 
==Examples in Papers==
*Hubs Paper (Section 2.2.3): [[Hubs (Academic Paper)]]
==Existing HIT Library==
create #Twitter Activity(Data Collection) Input: Search Text: Copy and Paste the search text:CompanyName City "Twitter"(e.g.Capital Factory Austin Twitter) into a list searching engine Company Name: Click on the link that has the company name Data Collect: Twitter Handle: copy and paste the Twitter handle of the company Twitter Activity: Record the date(MM/DD/YY) of existing hits and what they dothe latest 10th tweet/retweet
==TDL with HITS==
* Data validation using javascriptMeeting on 07/08: Dan, Todd, Ariel#Add Step 1 and Step 2 (Ariel)#Update the part on pay level (Ariel)#Step 5: 'worker requirement' to be updated by Dan *07/11#Publish ''Twitter Activity'' project#Work on ''Number of events'' and ''Onsite mentors'' turks
*07/12
*Evaluate results of Twitter Activity Turk (Todd)
==Page Updating Notes==*Meeting on 707/8: Dan, Todd, Ariel13#Add Step 1 and Step 2 (Ariel)#Update the part on pay level (Ariel)*Try to find more potential Hubs from current incubators<!-- flush flush --><!-- flush flush -->

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