Understanding Workers, Developing Effective Tasks, and Enhancing Marketplace Dynamics: A Study of a Large Crowdsourcing Marketplace
Summary: Empirical analysis of 27M microtasks by 70K+ workers over four years in a major crowdsourcing marketplace. Reveals how task design shapes worker behavior, marketplace load, attention spans, and worker lifetimes, informing ecosystem design. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Ayush Jain (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Akash Das Sarma (Stanford University)
- 3. Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 4. Jennifer Widom (Stanford University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{jain_vldb17,
title = {{Understanding Workers, Developing Effective Tasks, and Enhancing Marketplace Dynamics: A Study of a Large Crowdsourcing Marketplace}},
author = {Jain, Ayush and Sarma, Akash Das and Parameswaran, Aditya and Widom, Jennifer},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {7},
pages = {829--842},
doi = {10.14778/3067421.3067431},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3067421.3067431},
year = {2017}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,991 | RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation | 2021 | VLDB | 9.2383849e-05 |
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Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00034672523 |
| 257 | Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00022962347 |
| 749 | So Who Won? Dynamic Max Discovery with the Crowd | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00014265279 |
| 1,264 | CDAS: A Crowdsourcing Data Analytics System | 2012 | VLDB | 0.0001128316 |
| 2,832 | Crowd Mining | 2013 | SIGMOD | 7.9590386e-05 |
| 3,838 | Optimal Crowd-Powered Rating and Filtering Algorithms | 2014 | VLDB | 6.9929907e-05 |
| 7,818 | Towards Globally Optimal Crowdsourcing Quality Management: The Uniform Worker Setting | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.4469921e-05 |
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