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14 01, 2017

Safety-enabled apps: using Boston crime data to make Pokemon Go a safer space

By |2017-01-14T09:11:49-05:00January 14th, 2017|

Governments are increasingly making their data available freely in machine-readable format, which is great. A drawback, however, is that government data is organized and produced in a way that’s most useful to government operations, and it's not offered in an app-developer or data scientist friendly way. I talk about a project to harvest crime data daily from cities across the US and make it available for web apps and analytics as part of a larger effort to deliver ready-to-use open data sets on the cloud. The importance of adding safety data to apps is underscored by recent news that thieves [...]

14 01, 2017

So you really want to IoT your car?

By |2017-01-14T09:11:49-05:00January 14th, 2017|

All vehicles made or imported to the US after 1997 are required to have an ODBII(On Board Diagnostics 2) connector exposed to users. Auto manufacturers have exposed data from vehicles this way. As technology progressed, auto manufacturers switched from mechnical feedback and controls to programmable Bus system. So, in order for you to switch on the radio in the car, your mechnical or touch screen communicates via CAN Bus to achieve such a task. The same goes for turning on lights, horns, all the way to stopping (and if available self driving and parking vehicles with little or no assistance [...]

14 01, 2017

Automating the Gaps of Unit Testing Mobile Apps

By |2017-01-14T09:11:46-05:00January 14th, 2017|

Apple has provided an orchestra of instruments for developers to use to fine tune their apps and create the best user experience possible. At compile time, within the simulator, on the device and in the field. Apple offers some solid advice to offer developers on how to make their apps the best they could possibly be. This session will look at the series of tools available from using static analyzers, to knowing when to use the simulator, and when using the device is required to collect the data necessary to understand just how an application is performing. It will also [...]