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Make Data Work
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Veronica Mapes

Veronica Mapes
Technical Program Manager, Pinterest

Veronica Mapes is a technical program manager focused on human evaluation and computation at Pinterest, where she manages Pinterest’s internal human evaluation platform, maturing it from just an idea to a self-service platform with a 10 million annual run rate of tasks less than six months after launch, as well as third-party communities of crowdsourcing raters. She also hires, trains, and manages high-quality content evaluators and tests template and worker quality to ensure the delivery of highly accurate data for time series measurement and training machine learning models.

Sessions

1:50pm2:30pm Thursday, March 8, 2018
Veronica Mapes (Pinterest), Garner Chung (Pinterest)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Veronica Mapes and Garner Chung detail the human evaluation platform Pinterest developed to better serve its deep learning and operational teams when its needs grew beyond platforms like Mechanical Turk. Along the way, they cover tricks for increasing data reliability and judgement reproducibility and explain how Pinterest integrated end-user-sourced judgements into its in-house platform. Read more.