Data Visualization

Demet Dagdelen

Network Science at Automattic: Mapping the Communities of WP.com — Methodology

If you have read our analysis on the communities of WordPress.com and would like to know more about the methods behind it, then keep on reading! In this — slightly more technical — post, I will show how we constructed, filtered, projected, and clustered a network around WordPress.com users and blogs. Building the Network of WP.com People…
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…
Greg Ichneumon Brown

State of WordPress.com Elasticsearch Systems 2016

We get asked periodically about how extensively we are using Elasticsearch. And it has come up twice in the past week, so time to write a blog post. We are constantly expanding what we are using Elasticsearch for and so although some previous posts have broadly define what we are doing, they don’t really capture the…

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