JamesCRR

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US avg wage has declined in every demographic but increased overall(smartdatacollective.com)
1 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|1 comments
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40 maps they didn't teach you at school (but should have)(boredpanda.com)
43 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|22 comments
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
OpenSignal - London, full time We're the largest independent data source on cellular and WiFi networks. We're looking for people to help developing our crowdsourcing apps and interpret the data. Our team is small and we have a gre
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The world's most useless infographics(theguardian.com)
2 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|1 comments
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What Google autocomplete tells us of our worries (Spanish)(spanish.bilinkis.com)
2 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|0 comments
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
I think in QA terms it is certainly harder to build apps for Android, that said I'm not sure whether moving from 4000 distinct devices to 12000 distinct devices makes much difference, either way you're just going to pick some rep
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Android Fragmentation Visualized - 2013 (opensignal.com)
3 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|0 comments
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
My experience of working with rockstar programmers tends to be woeful, they spend far too much time dousing themselves in cocaine and hooking up with groupies, their code is shambolic and occasionally they smash a computer for the hell of i
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
Another example of Android being used for highly specialised crowdsourcing projects, (and also in the woods!) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829205.600-old-smart... - use of phones to listen out for illegal log
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
Things actually look at lot worse when you consider the level of data collected in certain countries. For instance, in Jordan 12.7 billion datapoints were collected in one month concerning a population of 6.1 million. 2000 datapoints per pe
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Fermi calc: What percentage of available data does the NSA capture?(bigdatarepublic.com)
1 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|1 comments
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
Actually 3.5% of android clocks ARE out by one hour or more... the 15s bug effects some phones, but the problem of being more than an hour out is very general and does effect 3.5% of phones - sorry if that's not clear!
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
One thing I missed out from the article: Waze contributors get direct access to the Waze devs once their data collection is high enough. This is a fascinating model that doesn't condescend to app users, but elevates them to having an a
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How to win like Waze: turn users into contributors(bigdatarepublic.com)
1 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|2 comments
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by JamesCRR 13y ago
I'd be interested to know of other stories of submissions to the Android Open Source Project buy 3rd parties that were adopted and became part of core Android. Anyone?
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On Android innovation: How temperature & humidity sensors made it into the S4(opensignal.com)
8 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|1 comments
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One week of crowd-sourcing the weather.(opensignal.com)
17 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|4 comments
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Google's ActivityRecognition: an Android Dev perspective(opensignal.com)
4 points by JamesCRR 13y ago|0 comments
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Quantified Self as a source for Big Data(bigdatarepublic.com)
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Pre-rollout 5G spotted(opensignal.com)
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Quick and dirty ways to map your data(bigdatarepublic.com)
1 points by JamesCRR 14y ago|0 comments
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
Great post, but I think that Startup Chile was the first accelerator program to guarantee a Visa, though whether that counts as a top-tier program is subject to debate. Whatever the case, it's great to see the UK leading the US here.
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What Netflix Didn't Get About Data Anonymity(bigdatarepublic.com)
2 points by JamesCRR 14y ago|0 comments
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
As a Brit, I'm pretty stunned by the efficacy of the We The People Platform here. Good work democracy.
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
One thing I've found interesting that I'd love to see explored in depth, is the lack of interplay between the tech used in US/Western Europe (traditional tech hubs) and Africa. It seems the apps that are important to one market are not the
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Raytheon's "Google for spies" may not be legal(bigdatarepublic.com)
4 points by JamesCRR 14y ago|0 comments
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
It's a little more subtle than this I think: he's arguing that across a year maybe 1/10th of the 1.2m monthly unique visitors will buy something. So overall conversion is 1/(10*12) or roughly 1%. Would love to hear from someone who runs a
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
Sorry we missed this one, yep HTTP download from Cloudfront - so we use those servers. Others e.g. SpeedTest.net use the servers of the local ISPs which is better for measuring the max possible speed a user can get, but our focus is on the
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
That's part of the very cool M:Lab project, other apps running M:Lab http://measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools
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by JamesCRR 14y ago
As a rule of thumb anything that's not standardized on iPhone is even less standardized on Android afaik there will be Android phones on all the bands that netwroks offer. We're releasing an iOS app soon - hopefully within two weeks - and w

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