Articles written by Dan Valente
GEN Summit Masterclass Update: Corrections on Findings
We are all barraged by numbers every day. It is my job, as a data scientist, to ensure that the statistics I report are accurate. The quality and accuracy of…
Some Takeaways from the Chartbeat Masterclass at the 2016 GEN Summit
Guten Morgen! I’m sitting here in the Vienna airport on my way back from this year’s GEN Summit, so I thought I’d use this opportunity to send a few interesting…
Do Facebook’s Changes Affect Traffic?
Two weeks ago, Facebook opened up its Instant Articles platform to all publishers. And last week, Facebook announced that they will be updating their News Feed algorithm once again. The…
What Being a Data Scientist at Chartbeat Really Means
My headphones are in, and I’m listening to Jóhann Jóhannsson’s The Miners’ Hymns — one of my favorite albums for coding. I’m finishing up an API for our new Heads…
Data-Driven Web Design: Examining Link Sizes, Densities, and Click-Throughs
Many publishers would likely argue that the design of the website is as important for enticing readers to engage with the content as the content itself—humans, unfortunately, do judge books…
Chartbeat University: Distributions
A few months ago, I wrote about coin-flipping experiments, Bayesian updating, and spurious certainty. Much of the discussion in that post centered on using probability densities to reason about data,…
Clicks, Coins, and Eight Cups of Tea
The story goes like this:Sometime around 1935, the eminent statistician Ronald A. Fisher met a lady. The lady in question had a seemingly outrageous claim: She could tell, simply by…
Attention Web World Cup Wrap-Up: Sample Size and Variability
After a month of exciting matches, the Attention Web World Cup has come to a close. In a time-honored tradition (pun intended) Ghana defeated the US with a score of…
Attention Web World Cup: Follow Along with Our Bracket for the Round of 16
After two weeks of intense international web engagement, our bracket for the Attention Web World Cup is set. Many of the groups came down to the very last game, and…
Attention Web World Cup: The Final Week of the Group Stage
If you’re anything like me, you’re still in a zombie-like stupor over the last 30 seconds of Sunday night’s USA-Portugal game. It’s astounding how drastically hopes, dreams, and expectations can…
Attention Web World Cup: Weekend 1 Update
Last week was the start of the World Cup, which meant the kickoff of Chartbeat’s Attention Web World Cup. We’re just 11 matches in and we’ve already seen some pretty…
Kicking Off the Attention Web World Cup
The World Cup kicked off yesterday with a fantastic (albeit controversial) game between Brazil and Croatia, with Brazil winning 3 – 1. Over the next month, we soccer fans will…