[Geowanking] war of the words

Math Heinzel wheinzel at wisc.edu
Mon May 4 20:43:03 PDT 2009


This is fun!

1000 experts, one year with no vacations, standard 40-hour work week,  
less than a thousand data "pieces" per second.

Of course, selected and managed almost certainly means fed into some  
processing scheme, not personally examined by eye or ear.

Still...


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> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:08:49 -0700
> From: Andrew Johnson <andrewljohnson at trailbehind.com>
> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] war of the words
> To: P Kishor <punkish at eidesis.org>
> Cc: geowanking at geowanking.org
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> I also don't understand the trillions claim.
>
> If 100 experts each curated 1000 pieces of data a day, it would take  
> them
> 20,000,000 days to curate 2 trillion pieces of data.
>
> Has WA been in development for longer than I suspect, or am I missing
> something here?
>
> Andrew
> Co-Founder, TrailBehind.com
>

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