NTC 2014 : Mobile, Cloud
Track
Vijay Gabale
Suggestions
This presentation provides links to data sets as well as tools and
resources for working on mobile and cloud computing systems.
Govt website links are a good place to look for social data sets.
We would recommend you browse through the data sets in this
presentation and see if any of them interests you.
We have also outlined a few examples to get ideas on how people are
applying mobile and cloud computing to real world problems
Your creativity is to think of a problem you think could get solved by
analyzing these data sets and applying mobile and cloud computing
techniques.
We don't want you to be over ambitious. However, we want you to be
as innovative and as effective as possible.
Feel free to reach out to us in case of any queries.
Deliverable
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Now that you are interested in building mobile or cloud applications, let us be clear on
the deliverable from your side.
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You can either submit a standalone mobile application or a standalone web
application or a combination of both. You should accompany your submission with
clear set of instructions so that we can run your application at our end.
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To stress this point, we again note that we should be able to install and run your
system at our end without any glitches. This means that you should test your
application in different environments before you make the final submission.
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However, you can clearly specify under which environments you application works,
for instances, Android 4.4, or Amazon cloud service etc.
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You application should work seamlessly with open source data set and open source
packages, for instance, if your application is supposed to load data from a data
source, the loading should happen automatically without any manual efforts.
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In next few slides, we equip you with open source tools and techniques you can use
to build your applications.
Mobile and Cloud Computing
Tools and packages
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Android SDK
– How to get Android SDK on your Linux or Windows based machine:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=sk
– How to develop and test an App using SDK on Linux or Windows based
machine: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html?hl=it
– How to port your App on a mobile platform (on a mobile phone or a tablet):
vbraille.cs.washington.edu/doc/how_to_install_apks.pdf
– How to integrate twitter or linked API with your App:
https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk
– How to integrate google analytics with your App:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v2/
– Stackoverflow.com is a great link to get hints and code fragments for a quick App
development (A developer rightly said, “we will be dead without
stackoverflow.com”).
Mobile and Cloud Computing
Tools and packages
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Cloud App
– You can either do data computation (processing, analysis) in the App (thus, your
deliverable would only be the App) or on a cloud depending on the computation
power required (thus, your deliverable would be a mobile App, plus a cloud App)
– We suggest you to first try out free cloud services to build cloud Apps:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/mo-android-mobiledata-app/
– You can also use Google Cloud Messaging to build cloud Apps:
http://developer.android.com/training/building-connectivity.html,
http://developer.android.com/training/cloudsync/gcm.html
– There are several free platform as a service such as Amazon:
http://aws.amazon.com/big-data/ (to run analysis on data),
http://aws.amazon.com/sdkforandroid/ (to integrate analysis with mobile App),
https://cloud.google.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backend_as_a_service
– You can also write a simple web App (on a machine over a wireless LAN) which
executes computation as the back-end and exposes API which are used by
mobile application to show the resutls.
Analytics Tools for Android
Weka for Android: https://github.com/rjmarsan/Weka-for-Android
Machine learning for Android: https://code.google.com/p/ml4android/
http://opensource.com/resources/projects-and-applications
List of open source applications:
http://opensource.com/resources/projects-and-applications
Google API: https://segment.io/docs/integrations/google-analytics/
Example Applications
Example 1 (analyzing telecommunication data to enable smarter transportation in urban areas): The slide deck
in the below link gives an overview of how data generated by mobile devices at the back-end of telecommunication
service providers' network can be used to enable services such as smarter transportation etc.:
http://www.slideshare.net/wkwsci-research/a-big-data-telco-solution-dr-laura-wynter
Example 2 Here are examples of mobile Apps developed using the open government data platform of India.
http://data.gov.in/featured-community-apps
Example 3: A simple concept which participating team can employ is as follows.
Step 1: You can list 4 data sets.
For example, water source availability by district in India, weather conditions by district in India, agriculture crop
production by district in India, list of districts in India
Step 2: The team then can write programs to clean and fuse the data sets.
For instance, you can fuse and correlate data about water sources, weather, agriculture yield, geography.
Step 3: The team then can write programs to build inference and prediction models.
For instance, you can infer that due to poor availability of water resources and not due to poor weather conditions,
agriculture yield in a particular state is poor. You can also find trends in the availability of water resources or
weather conditions (is it increasing or decreasing?) and using the models, you predict the agriculture yield for each
state for next 4 years etc.
You could also think about problems in other sectors such as energy. For instance, how should we utilize
renewable energy sources to dynamically support a higher energy demand at peak hours during the day? What is
the availability of solar radiation in India by each district? How much amount (Kwhr/units) of solar power can be
produced by each district?