Cascadian urbanist, technologist, and data nerd

February 2012

Differentiating Crowdsourcing and Twitter

Thu, 02/23/2012 - 16:52 -- Dillon Mahmoudi

As part of crowdsourcing research with Professor Ethan Seltzer, I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of people about crowdsourcing - both crowdsourcing practitioners and those who have never heard of the term. Not only have I spent a lot of time explaining the crowdsourcing process, it's necessary components, and it's dis/advantages, Ethan and I are about to propose a public crowdsourcing project. The term crowdsourcing is used casually by, well, just about everybody. Read more about Differentiating Crowdsourcing and Twitter …

In Defense of Portland's Fixie Bike Index Rank

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 23:35 -- Dillon Mahmoudi

I never thought I'd actually defend Portland's rather poor performance on any type of hipster ranking, but I have become interested in all things economics and hipster. I sincerely agree with Megan Greenwell of GOOD suggesting that the Portland backlash is good for the city. Recently, I came across the Fixie Bike Index on the Priceconomics blog. Some things that caught my eye: Read more about In Defense of Portland's Fixie Bike Index Rank …

Selective Survey: Ambiguous Group of People Still Want to Own Homes

Mon, 02/06/2012 - 16:51 -- Dillon Mahmoudi

A recent study by real estate consultants titled "Survey Reveals People Still Want to Own a Home" finds that "people" still want to own homes. An economist pointed out to me that the study should be titled "Startling result: Survey [of people touring new homes] reveals that people [touring new homes] still want to own a home." Woops. Read more about Selective Survey: Ambiguous Group of People Still Want to Own Homes …