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May 2016
Seven months ago, I was a data scientist at a big-data analytics firm. In my nine-month stint there, I was introduced to big data and the tremendous decision-making capabilities that it brings to organizations, both governments and corporations. I was convinced that data-driven decision-making is the need of the hour…
How We Built Collect Using the MVP Pattern (Model-View-Presenter)
Building Android applications is fun and challenging. We at SocialCops built Collect — a mobile-based data collection tool, currently being used by nearly 150 organizations around the world. The ever-increasing number of users, encouraging as it is, made it difficult to scale up Collect with the existing code structure. That was when…