This talk was recorded at the SFRails meetup at The Climate Corporation last week. talks to us about Internationalization and localization with Rails and what they learned during their initial push into Europe at Hotel Tonight.
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This talk was recorded at the SFRails meetup at The Climate Corporation last week. will give a lightning talk on what he’s learned developing an educational site that teaches students grammar/writing skills. He’ll share insights on how to avoid pitfalls in ed-tech that get the better of many engineers and discuss what technological advances make him hopeful for the future of education.
How to Engineer Products for Students and Teachers — Winning in Ed-Tech
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Today we have a talk from one of the meetup where Jim Jones, Software Engineer at Zvent and creator of the Turkee Gem, discussed integrating Amazon Mechanical Turk with Rails.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has long been used for scientific surveys and image classification. But it has a much greater potential. We’ll explore the creative possibilities of Mechanical Turk including story creation, testimonials, production descriptions, and the testing of product ideas. I will demonstrate the basics of the service that will allow you to begin testing and iterating on ideas quickly. We’ll conclude the presentation by showing an advanced example of integrating with Rails and Mechanical Turk utilizing the Turkee gem. Mechanical Turk could quickly become your swiss army knife for getting your project off the ground.
The Levo League hosted the latest NYC on Rails meetup where Jim Jones, Software Engineer at Zvent and creator of the Turkee Gem, talked about integrating Amazon Mechanical Turk with Rails.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has long been used for scientific surveys and image classification. But it has a much greater potential. We’ll explore the creative possibilities of Mechanical Turk including story creation, testimonials, production descriptions, and the testing of product ideas. I will demonstrate the basics of the service that will allow you to begin testing and iterating on ideas quickly. We’ll conclude the presentation by showing an advanced example of integrating with Rails and Mechanical Turk utilizing the Turkee gem. Mechanical Turk could quickly become your swiss army knife for getting your project off the ground.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/JimJones2