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Kyle Hamilton edited this page Jan 26, 2014 · 10 revisions

Introduction to the Simple Wizard (Text Based)

This is an introduction to the MTurkR Simple Wizard, all of these screenshots were taken in Rstudio using MTurkR v0.4

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Getting Started with MTurkR

There are a few steps you'll need to complete before you start working with MTurkR, after getting your AWS security credentials you'll be able to start working with MTurkR. All screenshots in this tutorial were taken in RStudio.

  • First you need to acquire your security credentials from Amazon
  • They can be found on the Amazon Web Services site aws.amazon.com
  • Once you get your credentials keep them in a safe spot, you can only download them once

  • Click on Access Keys
  • In the bottom left hand side there will be a button that says “Create New Access Key” click this and the following window will pop up

  • Once you create a new key pair you will need to download the .csv file, make sure you save this file you will only be able to download this file once

  • Your keys should look something like this
  • Now you are ready to start working with the Wizard
  • The Excel file that you download will have two numbers in it, one will be the AWSAccessKeyId and the other is the AWSSecretKey.

Introduction to the Simple Wizard (Text Based)

  • To start with the text based wizard you must use the command mturkr.wizard(“simple”)
  • Copy and paste your AWS Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key, then this menu should pop up

####Option 1: Check Account Balance

  • This command will allow you to see how much money is left in your MTurk account, this will only show how much you have in your requester account and will not count any money you've earned doing HIT's.

####Option 11: Contacting Workers

  • All of your workers on MTurk are anonymous and have ID numbers.
  • If you are sending messages to multiple workers you can just copy and paste their worker ID numbers from excel right into R and it’ll send it to them.

This is an example of sending a message to a single worker

  • This is what it looks like to send a message to a single worker.

  • This is what it looks like to send a message to multiple workers.

  • This is what the message looks like to your workers.

####Option 15: Requester Statistics

  • Requester Statistics will show you some basic infomation about your requester account.
  • You can filter your requester statistics based on time
  • One Day
  • Last Seven Days
  • Last Thirty Days
  • Lifetime of the account
  • This command will return 23 statistics for your account, here is a short list of the sort of data you'll find with this option.
  • Number of Assignments you have running on MTurk (Line 1).
  • Number of HITs you've rejected (Line 5).
  • Number of HITs that have been returned by workers (Line 6).
  • How much money you've paid to workers in US dollars (Line 14).
  • How much money you've paid to workers and Amazon (Line 18).
  • How much money Amazon is holding for uncompleted HITs (Line 23).

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