Importance of Having Technical Knowledge Onboard
Why businesses need technical expertise to evaluate development firms, avoid unnecessary technology costs, ask informed questions, and monitor code quality.
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Notes on code, startups, and the decisions behind the software. From our team in Cambridge, MA.
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Artificial artificial intelligence - our experience with Mechanical Turk
How Setfive used Amazon Mechanical Turk to transcribe Google Maps image labels, including HIT setup, technical issues, accuracy, cost, and workflow lessons.
Read the postTimelapse Twitter+Election map
A timelapse map visualizes how 11,021 election-related tweets for Obama and McCain changed across the United States during Election Day 2008.
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A Twitter-based election map used Search API queries, heuristics, geolocation, and unique-user counts to visualize vote-related activity in real time.
Read the postJoins, for better and for worse
How inefficient SQL queries slowed a growing application, and how adding left joins with Symfony Propel exposed duplicated joins.
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