Our Guide to Hosting an Amazing Hackathon
Maintaining a fun and creative culture is vitally important to everyone at Property Finder. From design to DevOps, we believe that creativity comes in all manner of guises and we recently hosted a Hackathon to allow teams across Product, Data and Tech to show off their skills and ideas. A Hackathon should be an exciting […]
Sharing Page Object classes and Test scenarios between Android and iOS
How we merged iOS and Android Page Objects classes and Test scenarios Hello “Bug Hunters” and everyone keen to learn more about how we can fight the good fight in QA! At Property Finder we pay a lot of attention to the automation part of testing so having best practices in our development process is […]
What Makes a Good Property Listing Title?
At Property Finder we have a huge amount of data that we use in a variety of ways — from image analysis, to forecasting to text and Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects. You can see some of these examples right here on our blog! The Data team’s goal / vision is to turn property and […]
Data Science Minimalism: Less is More!
“Minimalism is a tool to rid yourself of life’s excess in favor of focusing on what’s important — so you can find happiness, fulfillment, and freedom” — theminimalists Data science is the art of finding a balance between computer science, statistics and business. As if this wasn’t hard enough, new programming languages and frameworks are […]
Measuring and Optimizing Web Performance at Property Finder
At Property Finder, we’re currently going through a process of redesigning elements of our website. This has given us the opportunity to refactor and improve the existing codebase, as well as writing new code from scratch. You can see our progress so far on the amazing new property detail page on mobile. What made us […]
The almost-5-minute Data Science Pipeline.
Introduction So you guessed right. This pipeline will not take 5 minutes to develop but it’s not going to be far from it either. This post addresses the following problem: “How can I minimize the development time of a Data Science Pipeline and check all required task boxes at the same time?” Now is a […]
Modelling Noise Pollution
There’s a lot of information available when using Property Finder’s app and website to search for the perfect property location, including photographs of the property, it’s location within a map of the surrounding area, and descriptions and characteristics of the home itself (the number of bedrooms, square footage, tower facilities, and more). However, there are […]
Microservices at Property Finder
At Property Finder, we put a lot of effort into bringing people together from different squads across the company around important mutual topics. As a lead backend architect, I always feel rather compelled to engage others and bring forward change from within the company. Therefore, I recently held a presentation with the goal of introducing […]
Improving Image Quality in Property Finder
Property Finder is a real estate marketplace in the Middle East, and our purpose is to help consumers find the perfect home. Our user experience is optimized to enable users to effortlessly navigate through an extensive set of property choices without leaving their home. After picking their preferred options, we also provide easy ways for […]
Ask Data — Tableau’s Natural Language Analytics Feature
Tableau is a business analytics platform that offers interactive dashboards with a variety of data visualizations and multiple data analysis features. Recently, Tableau released a new feature — Ask Data, which helps users visualize and analyze their data by typing a question in plain language. Instead of building a report from scratch, and adjusting dimensions […]