Getting started with Mechanical Turk for data cleanup

In the months leading to the launch of Redfin Open Book, we embarked in an ambitious data cleanup project. We had 7,500+ free-form text fields from which we needed to extract structured vendor information. We ended up with 3,000+ cleaned database records. In this post I’ll walk you through how we used MTurk, and share the lessons I learned from using it. Read More