With or Without the Crowd? The Influence of Coder Characteristics on Coding Decisions Comparing Crowdworkers and Traditional Coders.
Julia Niemann-Lenz,
Anja Dittrich,
Jule Scheper
Abstract:Standardized manual content analysis is an important methodology to capture the messages in journalistic and social media. Specifically, for supervised machine learning aproaches, human-generated training data is needed. The process of coding as well as the selection of suitable coders is crucial for obtaining good data quality. However, little research has been done on how the coding process should be designed and how personal characteristics of the coders might influence data quality. This blind spot becomes… Show more
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