This webinar presentation covered CrowdFlower's NDA Crowds capabilities for secure, large-scale data tasks. It discussed CrowdFlower's machine learning platform, quality controls, and global contributor network. Two use cases were described: support ticket classification for a ridesharing company and PII document transcription. iMerit was introduced as a partner for NDA Crowds work, detailing their security protocols, dedicated teams, and an employee profile. The presentation concluded with next steps around follow-up materials.
CrowdFlower NDA Crowds - Secure, exceptional tasking at a massive scale.
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NDA Crowds Webinar
Secure, exceptional tasking at scale
December 2015
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Before we get started
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A few housekeeping items:
• Webinar slides, recording, and Q&A will be emailed to all registrants
• You can enter questions in chat on webinar panel
• Or ask your questions on twitter
- @CrowdFlower or @iMeritDigital
- Use #RichData
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Meet the speakers
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Brian Reavey
Director of Contributor Operations
CrowdFlower Inc.
brian.reavey@crowdflower.com
Anupam Biswas
Head of Operations and Delivery
iMerit Technologies
anupam@imerit.net
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What will be covered today
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Data Security
• Machine learning platform
• Partners + contributor ecosystem
• Quality control checks &
mechanisms
• Social Impact
Insights Why CrowdFlower?
Example Use Cases
• NDA Crowds and their features
• World-wide contributor network
• Data enrichment capabilities
• Support ticket classification
• Data transcription
• I.T. and physical security
• Signed agreements protecting PII
• Building dedicated, high-quality
teams
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Brian Reavey
• CrowdFlower Platform Overview
• How NDA Crowds work
• Use case: Support ticket classification
• Use case: Data transcription
• Getting started
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About us and what we do
Return relevant results on the
first search
Get real opinions other
solutions miss
Protect your brand
Enhance your business data
at massive scale
Turn big data into
rich data
Transform images, pdfs, or
short audio into text
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About our NDA Crowds
Contributors work in secure facilities
Specifically signed agreements protecting PII
Available to all paying platform customers
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Use case: Support ticket classification
Background: Large ride-sharing service uses CrowdFlower to
classify its support tickets for global operations
Scope of work: Prioritize the most important / urgent support
tickets quickly
Requirements: Speed, privacy, and security are very important.
Tight SLAs
Result: 40,000 support tickets classified in a single
weekend
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Use case: PII document transcription
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Customers use CrowdFlower to transcribe documents containing
PII to get valuable information into their database
Insurance documents Driver licenses
Resumes
Medical records
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Anupam Biswas
• iMerit overview
• Security & confidentiality at iMerit
• Meet our workers
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Platform Overview
Project
Pool market-aligned skills training
iMPP
Skilled
Resource
Pool
Skilling
Platform
Resource
Management
Resource
Pool
Project
Delivery
Platform
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How we work with CrowdFlower
A relationship built on years of teamwork
Meet frequently to discuss projects (and occasionally, to dance)
Fully integrated with CrowdFlower platform
Dedicated teams available 24/7/365
Serving the needs of CrowdFlower clients using the NDA option
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Security and Quality at iMerit
Global Commitment to Quality and Data Security
Curated crowd
Global quality assurance team
Information security following ISO 27001
Quality standards following ISO 9001
Ongoing enforcement of high quality and data security
I.T. & Physical Security
All access (physical and digital) highly restricted
24/7 monitoring and manned entry points
Biometric access to project areas
Secure, on-premises servers
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Security and Quality at iMerit
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Building dedicated, high-quality teams
Team members are hand-picked
Ongoing training to ensure expertise & engagement
Very low attrition and high retention of skills. Our employees love us!
An office culture dedicated to high-quality work
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Meet Barnali
Few employment opportunities
Chose to continue her education & work
Quickly moved up the ranks at iMerit
Inspires girls from her village
Now, supports both herself & her parents
Continues to dream big!
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What’s next?
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• Look out for a follow up email with a copy of these slides,
a recording of the webinar, Q&A recap, and other fun stuff
• View and share this presentation on Slideshare
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We source our contributors by utilizing our Contributor Channel Partner API, which allows us to connect our customers to contributors from organizations all over the world. Currently integrated with over 50 different partners worldwide this expansive network enables our customers to post tasks to a very diverse group of people.
Some customers, however, have data that contains PII or is sensitive enough to require increased oversight. For these customers data privacy and data security are the number one requirement. As a result, we have partnered with three impact sourcing BPOs to provide our customers this option.
1. so they can quickly identify and prioritize the most urgent issues
iMerit’s crowds are actually carefully curated teams of full-time employees. That means that while they have many advantages typically found when working with a crowd - like speed and scale - the employee relationship we have with them means that we can also quickly pivot, learn, and grow.
Once we receive a project from a client or partner like Crowdflower, we monitor the progress of the project and performance of our workers on internal platforms, providing skilling and targeted training to ensure high-quality and professional growth. This continued monitoring - of both project metrics like quality, and worker metrics like areas for improvement - forms the foundation of how we are able to attain over 95% accuracy for our clients, while having only 3% attrition among our workers. Our custom curated crowd together with the machine automation ensures security, quality, speed, and scale.
Let’s meet one of our workers. This is Barnali. She grew up in a tiny village in Eastern India where there were very few employment opportunities, especially for women. Most of the girls and women in her village did not complete their education, and as such remain in the village to work in the home. With iMerit, Barnali’s story is much different. Barnali continued her education and joined iMerit as a Data Entry Operator. She was quick to move up the ranks in iMerit, first becoming a team lead and now managing one of iMerit’s centers near Kolkata. For most girls in her village, this kind of work was unimaginable. Barnali has shown that not only can girls work in IT, but they can excel. Today, she has encouraged many girls from her village to continue learning and working, and she is able to financially support herself and her family. For our clients, she makes sure that all projects are delivered smoothly and exceed expectations. iMerit employees like Barnali are how we are able to perform at such high security and quality standards. She and her teammates are also why we do this work.