December 31, 2015
Does this title pass the Turing test?
It’s New Year’s Eve which means time to reflect on the previous year and make resolutions for the future. I may be biased, but I think one of the most…
Month: December 2015
December 31, 2015
Monitoring Mobile Network Performance
I have a confession to make. I secretly love flying. It’s the build up before you go on a big trip – going through security, waiting in front of the…
December 31, 2015
Staying Sane While Working With Avro In Scalding
Recently we’ve been writing a lot of our Analytics Jobs in scalding. Scalding is a “a Scala library that makes it easy to specify Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Scalding is built…
December 31, 2015
Flipping your lid to get a head
Let’s say I’m a professional coin flipper. I make my money going to tournaments, flipping coins against other pros. The League’s tightly regulated; coins are provided to competitors and are…
December 31, 2015
Fraud Squad Field Notes Part 2: Fighting Fraud with Benford’s Law
Fraud Squad Field Notes is a multipart series that will cover a variety of topics related to user fraud and waste within mobile app marketing. With insights directly from the…
December 30, 2015
Let’s talk about talking about Statistics
As Statistics is about extracting information, one of the most important components of a statistical analysis is communicating the appropriate conclusions. Unfortunately, it can be subtle and unforgiving territory, where…
December 30, 2015
Giving Free Internet to the Next Billion
mCent Magic In order to provide free Internet to our mCent users, Jana partners with mobile carriers and third-party resellers around the globe. We integrate with the backend of our…
December 30, 2015
Don’t use python httplib (or any library that uses it) to transfer large files, especially to China
As mentioned in previous blog posts, we are distributing our app in China through a local Chinese server. So a part of our deployment process is to upload the newest…
December 30, 2015
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Code Reviews
Early on in my programming life that comic surfaced on the internet. It was actually right about the time I was working at my first internship writing production-ready code….
December 29, 2015
Talking to Strangers: A few things I’ve learned talking to users in India
In tech, it’s important to speak to users. The information you learn from qualitative data can be very different and unexpected compared to quantitative insights. However, people are not machines! They have…
