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This Week in Data Reading
There’s nothing tastier than a set of links to devour! Check out what we’ve been reading recently and be sure to share your links to thought-provoking articles and discussions on topics in the field of data science.
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A Brand Image Analysis of WordPress and Automattic on Twitter
As a data scientist, I spend a lot of time analyzing how our users interact with WordPress.com. However, WordPress.com isn’t the only place to gain insight into how people use and […]
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Bulk Log Analytics With Hive
Leveraging the distributed powers of MapReduce to perform custom log analysis or some one-time queries on the raw data is fast and easy and you don’t even have to build a complicated ETL process to do it. The data engineering team at WordPress.com recently used this approch to query tens of billions of log lines…
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Evolution of a Plot: Better Data Visualization, One Step at a Time
The goal of data visualization is to transform numbers into insights. However, default data visualization output often disappoints. Sometimes, the graph shows irrelevant data or misses important aspects; sometimes, the […]
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Network Science at Automattic: Mapping the Communities of WP.com — Methodology
If you have read our analysis on the communities of WordPress.com and would like to know more about the methods behind it, then keep on reading! In this — slightly […]
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Intro to Search: Anatomy of a search engine
Welcome to the second post in our “Intro to Search”-series! Today, we’ll dig into the building blocks of search engines to give you an idea of just how we identify […]
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Network Science at Automattic: Mapping the Communities of WP.com
WordPress.com is home to hundreds of millions of sites, a place to produce and discover content. Logging in, you’re automatically taken to the Reader, where you’ll find a stream of posts from […]
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Intro to Search: Initial Considerations
This post is the first in a series about what we learned from developing search products for WordPress.com. In this post, I’ll give you a brief tour of some learnings […]
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State of WordPress.com Elasticsearch Systems 2016
We get asked periodically about how extensively we are using Elasticsearch. And it has come up twice in the past week, so time to write a blog post. We are constantly […]
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Data for nothing and bytes for free
WordPress.com is a freemium service, meaning that our awesome blogging platform is provided for free to everyone, and we make money by selling upgrades. We process thousands of user purchases […]
Data for Breakfast 