It was already four years ago when I created my Newsmap. It is time to update the whole system: fully rewritten in Python and developing a new classification algorithm. This is why I generated a 5,000 human-coded international news stories using the Prolific Academic. Thanks to the crowed-sourcing services, recruiting is no longer a problem, […]
Crowd-coding of international news by Prolific Academic
I recently created a sizable human-coded dataset (5,000 items) of international news using the Prolific Academic service. The Prolific Academic is an Oxford-based academic alternative to the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The advantage of using this services is that researchers only have to compensate for work that they approve. The potential drawback is its relatively high […]