best practices

Christo Wilson Discusses the Ethics of Online Behavioral Experiments

Charles Earl shares the insights he gleaned after hearing a talk from Dr. Christo Wilson about ethics in online behavioral experiements.

Yanir Seroussi

How to Increase Retention and Revenue in 1,000 Nontrivial Steps

Yanir reflects on how data scientists at Automattic work to improve customer retention.

Demet Dagdelen

Building Thousands of Reproducible ML Models with pipe, the Automattic Machine Learning Pipeline

Demet takes you deep into pipe, a tool that allows anyone at Automattic to build solid machine learning models.

Yanir Seroussi

Engineering Data Science at Automattic

Yanir Seroussi shares a few of the best practices our data scientists use in their work for Automattic.

Greg Ichneumon Brown

Improving Relevance and Elasticsearch Query Patterns

The WordPress.org plugin directory has been significantly rebuilt over the past year and should go live soon (test site). Many from across the WordPress community helped with this effort. I focused on improving plugin search relevancy. This was a great learning experience on how to build more relevant searches for a couple of reasons: There…