Playment gives companies on-demand workers to analyze data using mobile devices
Pretty much every company, to some extent, has to power their algorithms with data and machine learning if they’re going to be competitive with anyone else in their space. The challenge there, though, is that not everyone can have the massive computational power and data of a company like Google — especially not startups. Siddharth Mall and his co-founders started Playment in… Read More Continue reading Playment gives companies on-demand workers to analyze data using mobile devices
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