Happenings at MTurk

How an important change in web standards impacts your image annotation jobs

Focusing on disaster response with Amazon Augmented AI and Mechanical Turk

It’s easy to distinguish a lake from a flood. But when you’re looking at an aerial photograph, factors like angle, altitude, cloud cover, and context can make the task more difficult. And when you need…

Browser Compatibility Notification

Microsoft will soon disable Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 by default in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers. As a result of these upcoming changes, Amazon Mechanical Turk will no longer support legacy versions of Microsoft Internet…

Important updates on MTurk marketplace integrity, Worker identity and Requester tools to manage task quality

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has been connecting Workers from all over the world with Requesters to earn rewards for completing tasks anytime…

Paying for Non-Submitted HITs

Overview: Mechanical Turk is designed to require an assignment ID in…

New Feature for the MTurk Marketplace

Workers can now see Requester activity level, approval rate and average payment review time.
 
One of the things we have heard from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) Workers is that they want more transparency around Requesters on the marketplace. The MTurk Worker…

Getting Started with Surveys on MTurk

Get fast, and more reliable responses to your survey or study with MTurk

MTurk is a great way to get fast, and more reliable responses to your survey or study and many sectors of the economy…

MTurk Worker Daily Goals Dashboard

We all set goals around increasing our income but this is easier to do with the right information and tools. Workers have told us that they want better visibility into tracking their earnings over the course of the day. MTurk is happy to announce that we have launched…

Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers in 25 countries outside of the US can now transfer their earnings to bank accounts

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is excited to announce new functionality that enables MTurk Workers in 25 countries outside of the US to…

Qualifications and Worker Task Quality Best Practices

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) Requesters consistently tell us that using Qualifications is one of the most effective strategies for…

Older versions of the MTurk Requester API to be deprecated beginning June 1st, 2019

In order to provide a consistent and fully integrated experience for AWS developers that includes AWS Software…

MTurk Worker Identity and Task Quality

One of the great things about Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is that Workers from all over the world can earn rewards for completing tasks…

Introducing Updates to Dashboard for Workers

A dashboard update that enables workers see their Bonus…

MTurk Worker Tips: Common Account Issues

At Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), we heart our workers. We don’t say it often enough. MTurk workers are the lifeblood of the marketplace; they quite simply make it work. However much workers work on MTurk, we want them to feel empowered, informed, and…

MTurk introduces Crowd HTML Elements, a library of easy-to-use task interfaces for bounding box, semantic segmentation, classification and more

The most important step in getting great results from Amazon Mechanical Turk is…

AWS introduces a new way to label data for Machine Learning with MTurk

Tasks can now scale to a Worker’s browser window size

Using MTurk with Amazon SageMaker for Supervised Learning (ML)

The AWS Machine Learning blog has a new post describing how to use MTurk with Amazon SageMaker to gather annotations and train a machine learning model.

Tutorial: MTurk using Python in Jupyter Notebook