The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

By J. Surowiecki. 2004

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The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation? (2016, neutral): “…that the number of requests and of people performing such tasks would score even higher in terms of growth rates measures in number of matched requests. ix The hype on crowdsourcing originated with the popularization of the ‘wisdom of crowds’ narrative (Surowiecki, 2004) by Howe (2006, 2008).”
Wisdom of crowds for robust gene network inference (2012, neutral): “For improving individual inference approaches we suggest the following: (1) optimally exploit direct transcription factor perturbations; (2) employ strategies to avoid over-fitting, such as data resampling; (3) develop more effective approaches to distinguish direct from indirect regulation (feed-fo”