For a working example of how to use collection-repeat, http://codepen.io/rbose85/full/gbvLLx/.
Building on the CodePen example, this is a simple demo of how to use the custom directive collection-repeat from the Ionic Framework.
The data being used to populate this demo is coming from randomuser.me.
The inspiration for how best to acquire data for this demo comes from the ng-europe 2014 talk by Andrew Joslin, available to watch on YouTube.
To learn more about the collection-repeat directive please see the documentation.