#clockwork raven

[skyystars]

I made another animation meme! this time featuring me and my friend !!

[mistermysteria]

DAY 17 of posting everything in my trad-art binder!!

Date: December 7th, 2018

This one is actually still one of my favorite pieces to this day. It was inspired by Clockwork Raven on YouTube, I used to watch a lot of their animations.

[tabletopresources]

Through The Eyes Of A Raven by madstalfos

The moment I saw this thing I thought Clockwork Raven as a familiar. I was about to create stats for it when I realized... this is the internet. Sometimes I'm clever like that.

So I did a quick search and found a little something on d20pfsrd.com: Clockwork Familiar. It's Pathfinder stats for a creature/construct to go with the incredible picture by madstalfos. 

Let this also be a tip for everyone: If you see an image of something, or have inspiration hit, don't think you always have to make it yourself, starting from scratch.Do a search first cause, well, this is the internet. No matter how it might be (mis)used, it still works as the best brainstorm/idea mill in existence.

So, check out Tabletop Gaming Resources for more art, tips and tools for your game!

[techfindin]

Clockwork Raven: Crew of Crows at Work

Clockwork Raven[http://twitter.github.com/clockworkraven/]

Clockwork Raven steps in to do what algorithms can't: it sends your data analysis tasks to real people and gets fast, cheap, accurate results from Mechanical Turk.

Clockwork Raven is a web application that you set up for yourself or your organization. You upload your data, build a form to send out to reviewers, and then send it off to Mechanical Turk to have real people answer your questions. Then, you can review the results in Clockwork Raven or export them to a number of formats and use whatever tools you like.

[suryaray-blog]

New from Twitter: crowdsourced analytics

#SuryaRay #Surya Lost amid the furor around Twitter’s new API restrictions was news that the company has open-sourced Clockwork Raven — an in-house web application that makes it easier for anyone to submit what amounts to data analytics job tickets.  The idea is to get analytics questions out to actual human beings via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and get back “fast, cheap and accurate results,” according to a post on the Twitter Engineering blog. Mechanical Turk is an online marketplace used by programmers (known as requesters) who post jobs that need the human touch for a set fee. Workers, or “providers” in Mechanical Turk parlance, browse the job list and sign up for what interests them. What  Clockwork Raven does is make it easier for non-techies to submit jobs to Mechanical Turk, a task which now requires HTML expertise. Clockwork Raven offers an easy-to-use drag-and-drop template builder that anyone can use. Per the Twitter post: In Clockwork Raven, you create an evaluation by submitting a table of data (CSV or JSON). Each row of this table corresponds to a task that a human will complete. We build a template for the tasks in the Template Builder, then submit them to Mechanical Turk and Clockwork Raven tracks how many responses we’ve gotten. Once all the tasks are complete, we can import the results into Clockwork Raven where they’re presented in a configurable bar chart and can be exported to a number of data formats. At the end of the process, results can be exported into tools like R or a spreadsheet. Needed: the human touch It makes sense that Twitter, which many use as a crowdsourced news site, is a big fan of crowdsourcing in general. In the past Twitter programmers used Mechanical Turk and CrowdFlower as well as internal systems.  But the company felt it needed a better solution as it scales up its use of “human evaluation.” The use of crowdsourcing is a trend for many types of jobs. 99designs is a site for crowdsourcing graphic design tasks such as company logos and signage. Kickstarter, meanwhile, is a popular way to crowdsource funding for projects ranging from mechanical devices and web apps to music, perhaps even journalism. It’s interesting that in this age of big data and super-automated analytics of that data, the success of many tasks still depends on the work of actual human beings. Twitter, of all companies, is the perfect example of that. _Feature photo courtesy of Flickr user mikebaird_ --- http://dlvr.it/21GPp1 @suryaray