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Synchronizing Data with Apache Superset: Our Internal Solution
At Automattic, our deep appreciation for open source software is evident through our active contributions, with a primary focus on WordPress. Recently, we integrated Apache Superset, to help support our intricate data visualization needs. One notable achievement includes the automation of dataset creation, a solution that not only resolved an issue but also enhanced our…
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The New Face of Jetpack Stats
Jetpack Stats is one of Automattic’s most popular offerings, providing analytics for over 14 million users. Read and find out what we’ve done to modernize Jetpack Stats this year!
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Quest for Efficient AI: An Evaluation of the Vector Database Landscape
Earlier this year, due to soaring interest and multiple product initiatives, we went on a quest to evaluate and deploy an internally hosted vector database. We’re in the midst of the AI revolution, and many new AI‑inspired product initiatives rely on vector embeddings. Embeddings are generated by AI models, and take the form of high dimensional…
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Visualizing Diversity at Automattic
Diversity is essential to Automattic’s culture. As a company with employees from over 100 countries, we believe that embracing different perspectives and backgrounds is key to being creative and productive. Through our different perspectives, we create a happy and safe environment for employees and users. For this reason (and also because it’s right), we strive…
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Tips for a healthy work-life balance for people starting at a remote company
Maintaining a proper work-life balance is tough enough for folks who work in an office. It’s even more challenging when you work from home. But distributed work veteran Raúl Antón Cuadrado has tools, tips, and techniques to keep your work organized, humming, and in healthy balance with your life.
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How to Organize a Data Book Club at Work
Why a Book Club? Automattic has a creed that informs everything we do. And the very first part of the creed is “I will never stop learning”. The first and most important line of the creed means that you’re never finished. There is always more to learn. Your list of unread books is always going to…
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Women of Datamattic | Menaka Sankaralingam
Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is the Code Wrangler, Menaka Sankaralingam.
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Women of Datamattic: Madison Swain-Bowden
Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is the Data Pagan, Madison Swain-Bowden.
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Women of Datamattic: Anna Elek
Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is our Head of Data, Anna Elek.
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The Data Docs: A WordPress based Data Discoverability Tool
The Data Docs is Automattic’s new home made data discoverability solution. It collects and publishes our datasets’ metadata to Wordpress so it is accessible and searchable by our users. Here we describe the idea from its conception and explain how it works.
Data for Breakfast 