Word of the year: acceleration

Just look at these numbers:

• 600Mtasks were completed by our Tolokers — that's 10X the number of articles on Wikipedia!
• 6Mof these were side-by-side comparisons of images, videos, texts, and audio recordings
• 1.1Mlocations visited by Tolokers doing field tasks — that's like going to every single building in New York City!
• 15adaptive ML models released on our new podium and lots of other product improvements that you’ll find on our changelog 
• Fun fact: Have you been through our onboarding process? Your guide is our product manager,
  Roman Gaev

Our community grew

The community is growing strong and we’re excited to see all the new faces alongside the familiar ones! Here’s how the community grew:

• +4500new members
• +40events across the globe: USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Turkey, China, Pakistan
• 2000people in attendance
• Fun fact: There is one community member who didn't miss a single event. We can’t name them for privacy reasons, but we are seriously thinking about a perfect attendance award for next year! Maybe even the ML Oscars 🏆

We schooled y’all

Education? You asked and we delivered! Everything from basic guides to advanced deep dives, and all the latest on how real businesses are finding new ways to use Toloka. The facts:

• 16lectures, workshops and webinars
• >700people attended them
• 4workshops at top conferences: ICWE 2022, 
  RecSys
  , HCOMP, NeurIPS
• Toloka Crash Course and Toloka Certification went live
• Fun fact: The Education team has its own Saraswati goddess of use cases. Polina Smirnova has thousands of them in her head waiting to be shared in 2023. Stay tuned!

Science is still #1

Original research is in Toloka’s DNA. Check it out:

• We’re sending the Visual Question Answering Challenge winners to WSDM 2023
• We hosted a social at NeurIPS 2022
• We also ran tutorials at RecSys and ICWE
• And papers? You bet they were accepted at HCOMP and NeurIPS
• Fun Fact: Toloka can teach a digitally animated cartoon character to do a backflip

In the spotlight

67 articles about our work were published across top tech and business publications. Bam! Our favorites:

• Our CEO gave the lowdown on training data for Forbes! 
• UNESCO recognized our project with Northeastern University to help US and Mexican rural communities access income opportunities
• Our head of ML products showed VentureBeat how to get a better time to market

Last, but not least — ISO certification

• Toloka started out the year by getting certified for compliance with ISO/IEC 27001, the highest industry standard in information security management. We are continually enhancing security and privacy — watch for more security news in 2023!