Data Analytics

Carly Stambaugh

How’s Your New Year’s Resolution Going?

Talking with friends last week, many of us sheepishly admitted that we have already “broken” our 2017 resolutions. According to a popularly cited study by Norcross in 2002, only 64% of 150 participants who had made resolutions were able to stick with them beyond a month. A recent Marist poll lists some popular choices for…
Krista Stevens

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.
Xiao

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…
Demet Dagdelen

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 sites you follow or that we’ve recommended for you. You can like, reblog, or comment on these posts. If you’re inspired, you can choose to publish a…
Boris Gorelik

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 each week and you might expect that we know a lot about our customers. The truth is, we are still learning. In this post, we…