Raise your hand if you don’t have enough time in the day to make data-driven content decisions. We’re betting that’s most of you. Especially anyone working in media where the expectation is to be the…
You know that old saying, "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is?" We technologists should probably apply that saying to database vendor claims pretty regularly. In the summer of 2014, the…
Recently the topic of coding for journalists has been a subject of debate, from The Atlantic's "Should Journalism Schools Require Reporters to 'Learn Code'? No" to Noah Veltman's "On journalism and learning to code (again)".…
Last month, we combined the two things we love the most at Parse.ly: analytics and digital media, to create our first Authority Report. We collect data on billions of pageviews across hundreds of top-tier news…
Data is enlightening, mesmerizing, and reflective. With the advent of technology, data points are much easier to harvest now. The trick in this day and age is to figure out the answers to be read…
I’m a junior at NYU, where I’m studying computer science. I have a short attention span—which is why I’ve decided to write this in listicle form for those of you who are also easily distracted.…
Over the past few months, I have been slowly learning Python. I wanted to learn programming as a way of expanding my knowledge and becoming familiar with software engineering. While I do have more of…
My first job out of college was as a software engineer for Morgan Stanley. This 50,000 employee firm employed tens of thousands of software engineers. Though the most important employees were the traders, it was…
I have been at Parse.ly for about six months now, working as the business and marketing intern and one thing I have realized is that I have learned more than I could have imagined. This…
I joined Parse.ly as a business intern right after college graduation—I'm going to graduate school in Europe—in order to learn how publishers can use web analytics to improve their content and encourage audience engagement. In…
Emmett Butler is a web and video game developer and an NYU senior studying computer science and music technology. In this post, he reflects on his time as an intern at Parse.ly Today, I leave…
Last week, BuzzFeed launched a new “community vertical” that hosts user-generated and curated content. The BuzzFeed community vertical follows on the heels of a Gawker Media project, Kinja, a combo blogging platform, social media interface,…