CrowdWorks K.K. , Japan's premier crowdsourcing service headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, announced that it has entered into a business partnership with CrowdFlower Inc., the essential human in the loop platform for data science teams to offer high quality digital work to 950,000 Japanese and global crowd workers.

In recent years, the need for large, high quality human curated datasets to enable big data initiatives has grown dramatically and will continue to grow bigger. This partnership will make it possible for CrowdWorks users such as seniors, women, and skilled workers who face difficulty in finding high quality work to be a part of this sharing economy. This partnership will enable many Japanese workers to take on a wide variety of digital jobs such as gathering, cleansing, and labeling, large data sets.

Figure: Overview of Business Partnership between CrowdWorks and CrowdFlower

The CrowdFlower platform executes tasks that require human intelligence - like search relevance tuning, data categorization, image annotation, sentiment analysis, data transcription etc. Through this partnership, it will be possible to utilize the Japanese workers for the above-mentioned micro tasks. This will also allow CrowdFlower to streamline large-scale jobs and improve the quality of data submitted.

Process of Orders with CrowdFlower and Overview of Work

Overview of Work

Content of work: micro task work such as data entry, data cleansing, and data tagging

Language Used: English

Process for Receiving Work

By registering with CrowdFlower via a special page within CrowdWorks, crowdworkers will be able to receive work and orders from CrowdFlower. For each month wherein the amount of compensation for work exceeds the minimal threshold of USD $10 on the last day of each month (U.S. time), an email notification with the confirmed amount of compensation will be sent, and compensation will be delivered on the 15th two months thereafter.

Note: Emails regarding compensation will not be sent when the amount of compensation is less than the minimal threshold of USD $10.

URL for the Special CrowdFlower Page: https://crowdworks.jp/crowdflower

About CrowdFlower

CrowdFlower is the essential human-in-the-loop platform for data science teams. CrowdFlower is focused on making data useful by helping data teams collect, clean and label their data at scale. The CrowdFlower platform combines human-labeled training data, easy to deploy machine learning models, and human-in-the-loop capabilities to help companies create value from their unstructured data.

Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Microsoft, Canvas Venture Fund and Trinity Ventures, CrowdFlower serves data science teams at Fortune 500 and fast-growing data-driven organizations across a wide variety of industries. For more informaton, visit www.crowdflower.com.

About CrowdWorks

CrowdWorks mission is to Make People Smile as they Work, and it is in this spirit that the company operates CrowdWorks (https://crowdworks.jp/), Japans premier crowdsourcing service for commissioning and receiving work online. As of June 2016, CrowdWorks has 950,000 registered users and has reached 130,000 clients, which include listed companies as well as the eight government ministries of the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Additionally, CrowdWorks is also used by over 40 governmental organizations. In December 2014, CrowdWorks became listed on Mothers (Securities Code: 3900). CrowdWorks was selected among Nikkei Businesss 100 Next-Generation Ventures that Will Save Japan, and in 2015, CrowdWorks received the Workstyle Innovation Award (a special recognition award) in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industrys First Nippon Venture Awards, as well as the 2015 Design for the Future Award. CrowdWorks provides companies with flexible options for utilizing talent while also undertaking the construction of a next-generation working infrastructure that allows people who work individually with the freedom to choose various working styles.

Company Name: CrowdWorks K.K.

Company Representative: Mr. Koichiro Yoshida, CEO

Location: Ebisu Garden Place Tower, 6F, Ebisu 4-20-3, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Established: November 11, 2011

Operations: Crowdsourcing operations

Capital: 1,690,680, 000 yen

URL:https://crowdworks.co.jp/