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Data, Journalists, and Learning to Code for the Newsroom
Recently the topic of coding for journalists has been a subject of debate, from The Atlantic’s “Should Journalism Schools Require …
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Parse.ly Insights from #ONA13
Last week Parse.ly CEO Sachin Kamdar and VP of Sales and Marketing, John Levitt, joined 1,500 journalists and journalism experts …
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Just How Soon Will Google’s Dark Search Take Over?
Last month, we combined the two things we love the most at Parse.ly: analytics and digital media, to create our …
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Ratio Metrics: How Atlantic Media Measures Article Performance
This is a guest post by Adam Felder, Associate Director of Digital Analytics at Atlantic Media. Frequently in analytics, …
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Zipf’s Law of the Internet: Explaining Online Behavior
In 1949, the linguist George Kingsley Zipf noticed that given a natural language corpus, words are distributed such that the …
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Feedback Loop: How I Improved My Day-to-Day Productivity with Data
Data is enlightening, mesmerizing, and reflective. With the advent of technology, data points are much easier to harvest now. The …
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Intern Blog: What I’ve Learned at Parse.ly
I’m a junior at NYU, where I’m studying computer science. I have a short attention span—which is why I’ve decided …
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Intern Blog: Applying Programming Concepts to Everyday Life
Over the past few months, I have been slowly learning Python. I wanted to learn programming as a way of …
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The Content Trading Desk
My first job out of college was as a software engineer for Morgan Stanley. This 50,000 employee firm employed tens …