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While I don't disagree with any of it, maybe the Hate has gone too far in this thread, so I won't pile on. It is tempting though :p haha. I don't pay for WSJ,

by 40four 8y ago

While I don't disagree with any of it, maybe the Hate has gone too far in this thread, so I won't pile on. It is tempting though :p haha. I don't pay for WSJ, so I could only read 1st 2 paragraphs. It says they want to invest more in the more 'promising' areas of content licensing & e-commerce? What the hell does that mean in this context? Are the going to try to sell their articles to other smaller sites to publish? Not sure what products they sell, so how is e-commerce involved? Selling products for advertisers? And I also have a question for minimaxir who said he/she is a BuzzFeed employee. What does a data scientist do at a company like that? What kind of data are you crunching and hiw does it affect the companies descisions? Maybe this isn't information you can share publicly? But I'm interested in data science so I'm curious. Maybe you have some insight on what's happening?

minimaxir 8y ago
> What does a data scientist do at a company like that? BuzzFeed publishes a few things about that on the tech blog: https://tech.buzzfeed.com/ https://tech.buzzfeed.com/ For example, a few NLP tasks such as identifying trending topics (https://tech.buzzfeed.com/identifying-trending-topics-for-buzzfeed-news-d1759fac888e https://tech.buzzfeed.com/identifying-trending-topics-for-bu...) and topic clustering (https://tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quizzes-using-k-means-clustering-95fc46bc6daf https://tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quiz...). I haven't written any posts for the blog (due to time), but I do want to write posts there soon :) Anything beyond what's there I can't disclose publicly.
- 40four 8y ago
  Cool, thanks for the articles, I'll check them out. I'm interested in learning more about data science, maybe pursing it in the future if I get ever get tired of web development.
elicash 8y ago
> I don't pay for WSJ, so I could only read 1st 2 paragraphs. I'm not arguing you SHOULD pay -- I don't -- but found this unintentionally hilarious in a thread about all the layoffs recently in the online news business. But more seriously, Google and Facebook take so much of the ad revenue it's not surprising to see so many unable to prosper.
- 40four 8y ago
  Heh, it is kind of funny now that I think about it. I know nothing about advertising, I wonder why that's the case? Is it just about the sheer amount of volume FB/Google control? Are they in the position to be able to charge higher prices? I mean, I'd imagine BuzzFeed racks up a huge amount of exposures/ click-thrus. But I guess the big guys just control such a huge % of people's time share on the net it can't compare.
  - jteppinette 8y ago
    I’d imagine their target audience is relatively broke.
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eridius 8y ago
> he/she BTW "they" has been used as a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun for over a century, and it's superior to "he/she" not only in ergonomics but also because "he/she" doesn't work for nonbinary people whereas "they" works for everyone.

by 40four 8y ago

minimaxir 8y ago

> What does a data scientist do at a company like that? BuzzFeed publishes a few things about that on the tech blog: https://tech.buzzfeed.com/ https://tech.buzzfeed.com/ For example, a few NLP tasks such as identifying trending topics (https://tech.buzzfeed.com/identifying-trending-topics-for-buzzfeed-news-d1759fac888e https://tech.buzzfeed.com/identifying-trending-topics-for-bu...) and topic clustering (https://tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quizzes-using-k-means-clustering-95fc46bc6daf https://tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quiz...). I haven't written any posts for the blog (due to time), but I do want to write posts there soon :) Anything beyond what's there I can't disclose publicly.

40four 8y ago
Cool, thanks for the articles, I'll check them out. I'm interested in learning more about data science, maybe pursing it in the future if I get ever get tired of web development.

elicash 8y ago

> I don't pay for WSJ, so I could only read 1st 2 paragraphs. I'm not arguing you SHOULD pay -- I don't -- but found this unintentionally hilarious in a thread about all the layoffs recently in the online news business. But more seriously, Google and Facebook take so much of the ad revenue it's not surprising to see so many unable to prosper.

40four 8y ago
Heh, it is kind of funny now that I think about it. I know nothing about advertising, I wonder why that's the case? Is it just about the sheer amount of volume FB/Google control? Are they in the position to be able to charge higher prices? I mean, I'd imagine BuzzFeed racks up a huge amount of exposures/ click-thrus. But I guess the big guys just control such a huge % of people's time share on the net it can't compare.
- jteppinette 8y ago
  I’d imagine their target audience is relatively broke.
- deleted 8y ago
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eridius 8y ago

> he/she BTW "they" has been used as a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun for over a century, and it's superior to "he/she" not only in ergonomics but also because "he/she" doesn't work for nonbinary people whereas "they" works for everyone.