Writing from the field — on data infrastructure, AI in practice, and how we build the platforms behind real-world impact.
We used the Sidekiq gem to allow us to easily define "worker" processes that would handle these sorts of tasks in the background, leaving the main web process alone. See what a sample of what the report worker class looks like.
Standard Co is hiring! That's right, your favorite Global Public Health data platform (and <a href="http://www.databaseofnachos.com" target="window">Nacho database</a>) is looking to add to our team.
Our work at Standard Co and <a href="https://securedatakit.com" target="window">Secure Data Kit</a> is spread across the global health spectrum but one area we have particular focus on is Neglected Tr
If you're in North America no doubt you've at least heard of the debacle in Iowa. In short, the Iowa team deployed a new app to help collect data from over 1600 precincts. It used to be done with pen
Last week the Atlanta Startup Awards happened. And we actually won something the Impact award. Which is super cool because there are a lot of different startup awards out there fastest growing, best c
