Data Science


  • ExPlat: Automattic’s Experimentation Platform

    Over the past 18 months, the Decision Science team has been building the Experimentation Platform (ExPlat): a tool to help our colleagues run experiments to improve customer experiences, inform product decisions, and quantify the impact of newly released features on many of Automattic’s products such as WordPress.com, Jetpack, Akismet, and more. In this multi‑part series, we…

  • 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…

  • “I found a lot of new and exciting ways to break WordPress.com”: Highlights of our time at Automattic

    A few of my colleagues — with tenures at Automattic from just a few months to many years — share their highlights of working here. Robert Felty Robert, you rejoined us a few months ago. What has been your highlight so far?  I would like to focus on one aspect of Automattic which has been dramatically…

  • Teaching Python to Beginners

    Vicki Boykis shares some tips on how to teach beginners to code.

  • Five Paths to Automattic

    Greg, Anna, Anand, Anna, and Robert — who come from a variety of backgrounds ranging from fullstack software development to linguistics, hardcore math, and more — share how they came to work with data at Automattic.