Data Engineering

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.

Igor Khrol

SQL — a Common Language for the Whole Data Team

Today, I wanted to share how we’ve empowered colleagues outside the data engineering team to write their own data transformations by overcoming coding language barriers. Within our Data team, there are several specializations: Data Analysts create dashboards and analyze data for business leads and product teams across the company. Data Scientists apply machine learning technology at…

Simon

Looker NYC Meetup

Like any company, Automattic is constantly on a journey to get better: sometimes we have the good fortune of finding improvement in leaps and bounds, but most of the time, we move slowly, we make small changes, finding iterative wins and moving down the to‑do list. I think probably this is how most progress happens:…