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Online Labor
Personal blog · onlinelabor.blogspot.comeconomicsdata
Online Labor is a personal blog at onlinelabor.blogspot.com about economics and data. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Thoughts on the economic and technological implications of people working online.
What Hacker News says?
Re: oDesk data - what do you want to know? I regular post data from oDesk on my own blog (I work at oDesk w/ these folks: https://www.odesk.com/info/l/research/ ): http://onlinelabor.blogspot.com/ . And there's the "oConomy": https://www.odesk.com/oconomy/ There's also lots of info available via the API.
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on “Hiring experiment: hiring experts in 20 minute chunks”Submitted High-wage skills, or why you might want to learn Clojure if you're not a lawyer as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted It shouldn't take 64 lines of code to do something really simple as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Smell Detector (WSD) - a tool for finding problematic writing as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Innovation of StackOverflow as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job titles & wages on oDesk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indian blackouts & oDesk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted High-wage skills on oDesk (or why non-lawyers might want to learn Clojure) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Workers as bundled goods as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digitization of the supply side of the labor market as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why aren't we all freelancers? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digitization of the supply side of the labor market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resources for online social science as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using networkx to make a graph of Google auto-suggest stereotypes about animals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should online labor markets impose a minimum wage? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some light data munging with R (with an application to ranking NFL Teams) as a story · 1 points
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