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From the Ted Talk by Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And this was the inspiration for a project that I worked on with my frneid Takashi Kawashima. We decided to use the Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was meant for, which is making money. So we took a hundred dollar bill and divided it into 10,000 teney pieces, and we fed those into the Mechanical Turk. We asked people to draw what it was that they saw. But here there was no sheep-like citirrea. People, if they drew a stick figure or a smiley face, it actually made it into the bill. So what you see is actually a rtpsetniaeoern of how well people did what it was they were asked to do. So we took these hundred dollar bills, and we put them on a wtsibee called TenThousandsCents.com, where you can browse through and see all the individual contributions. And you can also tarde real hundred-dollar bills for fake hundred-dollar bills and make a donation to the Hundred Dollar latpop Project, which is now known as One Laptop Per Child. This is again showing all the different contributions. You see some people did bafuietul stipple renderings, like this one on top — snept a long time mnakig realistic versions. And other polpee would draw stick firegus or smiley faces. Here on the right-hand side in the middle you see this one guy writing, "$0.01!!! Really?" That's all I'm getting paid for this?

Open Cloze

And this was the inspiration for a project that I worked on with my ______ Takashi Kawashima. We decided to use the Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was meant for, which is making money. So we took a hundred dollar bill and divided it into 10,000 _____ pieces, and we fed those into the Mechanical Turk. We asked people to draw what it was that they saw. But here there was no sheep-like ________. People, if they drew a stick figure or a smiley face, it actually made it into the bill. So what you see is actually a ______________ of how well people did what it was they were asked to do. So we took these hundred dollar bills, and we put them on a _______ called TenThousandsCents.com, where you can browse through and see all the individual contributions. And you can also _____ real hundred-dollar bills for fake hundred-dollar bills and make a donation to the Hundred Dollar ______ Project, which is now known as One Laptop Per Child. This is again showing all the different contributions. You see some people did _________ stipple renderings, like this one on top — _____ a long time ______ realistic versions. And other ______ would draw stick _______ or smiley faces. Here on the right-hand side in the middle you see this one guy writing, "$0.01!!! Really?" That's all I'm getting paid for this?

Solution

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  2. criteria
  3. trade
  4. beautiful
  5. teeny
  6. making
  7. people
  8. website
  9. spent
  10. friend
  11. figures
  12. laptop

Original Text

And this was the inspiration for a project that I worked on with my friend Takashi Kawashima. We decided to use the Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was meant for, which is making money. So we took a hundred dollar bill and divided it into 10,000 teeny pieces, and we fed those into the Mechanical Turk. We asked people to draw what it was that they saw. But here there was no sheep-like criteria. People, if they drew a stick figure or a smiley face, it actually made it into the bill. So what you see is actually a representation of how well people did what it was they were asked to do. So we took these hundred dollar bills, and we put them on a website called TenThousandsCents.com, where you can browse through and see all the individual contributions. And you can also trade real hundred-dollar bills for fake hundred-dollar bills and make a donation to the Hundred Dollar Laptop Project, which is now known as One Laptop Per Child. This is again showing all the different contributions. You see some people did beautiful stipple renderings, like this one on top — spent a long time making realistic versions. And other people would draw stick figures or smiley faces. Here on the right-hand side in the middle you see this one guy writing, "$0.01!!! Really?" That's all I'm getting paid for this?

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