Amazon Mechanical Turk

No 1 MTurk

Human intelligence through an API
Access a global, on-demand, 24x7 workforce

MTurk aims to make accessing human intelligence simple, scalable, and cost-effective. Businesses or developers needing tasks done (called Human Intelligence Tasks or “HITs”) can use the robust MTurk API to access thousands of high quality, global, on-demand Workers—and then programmatically integrate the results of that work directly into their business processes and systems. MTurk enables developers and businesses to achieve their goals more quickly and at a lower cost than was previously possible.

On-Demand Workforce

Available when you need it. 24x7.

Elastic Workforce

Pay only for what you use.

Lower Cost Structure

Turn fixed costs into variable costs.

Quality Management

Everything you need to ensure quality results.

Enabling New Business

Helping you make the impossible possible.

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Image/Video Processing

MTurk is well-suited for processing images. While difficult for computers, it is a task that is extremely easy for people to do. In the past, companies have used MTurk to:

Tag objects found in an image to improve your search or advertising targeting
Review a set of images to select the best picture to represent a product
Audit user-uploaded images or videos to moderate content
Classify objects found in satellite imagery

Data Verification and Clean-up

Companies with large online directories or catalogs are using MTurk to identify duplicate entries and verify item details. Examples of this have included:

Removing duplicate content from business listings
Identifying incomplete or duplicate product listings in a catalog
Verifying restaurant details such as phone numbers or hours of operation
Converting unstructured data about locations into well-formed addresses

Information Gathering

The diversification and the scale of the MTurk workforce allows you to gather a breadth of information that would be almost impossible to do otherwise such as:

Allowing people to ask questions from a computer or mobile device about any topic and have Workers return the results
Filling out market research or survey data on a variety of topics
Writing content for websites
Finding specific fields or data elements in large legal and government documents

Data Processing

Companies take advantage of the power of the MTurk workforce to understand and intelligently respond to different types of data including:

Audio editing and transcription
Human powered translation services
Rating the accuracy of results for a search engine
Categorizing information to match a given schema or taxonomy

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Demo 1: Mechanical Turk Integration with Jupyter

Learn how you can use the Mechanical Turk API to integrate with a Jupyter Notebook. This notebook could be running on the deep learning AMI or via SageMaker. In this demo, you will find Jupyter Notebook samples that make it easier for you to work with Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) APIs using our Python clients.

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