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Learn how to financially evaluate your analytics projects with a robust decision model
Companies, governments, and NGOs around the globe have realized the tremendous value that analytics can bring to their organizations. Automating processes to save thousands of human hours, improving decision-making based on data-driven analysis, and gaining a competitive advantage by becoming more agile and effective are only a few reasons why companies are heavily investing in analytics projects.
Traffic, Turkey and No-Knead Bread
When more people started cooking at home, the NYT Cooking engineering team rushed to make software improvements. By Tiffany Peón Most years, the writers and editors of the New York Times Food section begin preparing Thanksgiving stories in the summer, sometimes cooking entire turkeys in their sweltering homes to test recipes. The engineering team for NYT Cooking starts preparations just as early, though our work doesn’t usually involve sweating over poultry.
Finding the Right Words
The New York Times is releasing guidelines for how we describe our products By Sarah Duncan Illustration by Bráulio Amado Words have meaning. This statement shouldn’t be a surprise coming from The New York Times, but for the technology industry at large, it’s something that has been increasingly discussed in recent years. Whether it’s terminology like “master” or “blacklist,” words with harmful connotations have been baked into tech communication for decades.
How the New York Times Technology Teams Prepared for the 2020 Election
“We need a plan for everything, a backup plan for everything, and then an idea of what we should do if both of those plans fail.” Illustration by Wren McDonald What does it take to prepare The New York Times for a presidential election during a pandemic?
On the 2020 Elections, Texas Hold’em Poker, and Monte Carlo
And when data becomes personal Image courtesy of Amanda Jones on Unsplash. There was a period in my life when I used to play poker quite a lot, Texas Hold’em specifically. I loved everything about it — trying to anticipate your opponents’ next steps, calculating probabilities based on what little information I had available, placing bets small and large, and managing the psyche, including riding the highs and lows of the game.
To Find Photos in Our Archive, We Taught the CMS How to Read
Illustration by Simone Noronha Imagine you’re a photo editor at The New York Times. It’s early evening, a few hours before the print deadline, and a story breaks involving Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As fast as you can, you run a search for “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” in our internal photo archive and begin to scan the results.
Innovating from Home: Maker Week at The New York Times
Maker Week is an annual tradition: New York Times employees in Data, Design, Marketing, Product and Technology are given the freedom to step away from their normal responsibilities and work on self-directed projects. The event is time for our colleagues to experiment with new ideas or iterate on old ones. This year, our colleagues worked on over 96 projects and participated in 24 peer-led workshops over five meeting-free days.
Publishing Assets? We Had a Few.
59 million of them, to be exact. And they were out of order. The New York Times has been publishing since 1851. At first, we printed dozens of articles a day in the paper, then we gradually added photographs, recipes and reviews. When we moved to the internet, we added slideshows, videos, interactives and podcasts. Collectively, we call these items “publishing assets.” After nearly 170 years of publishing, we have accumulated over 59 million assets. And that number is constantly growing.
Meeting… Tiffany Peón, Senior Software Engineer
What is your name? Tiffany Peón What are your pronouns? She/Her What is your job? Senior Software Engineer on NYT Cooking. What does that mean? I write and maintain software for NYT Cooking. As a backend engineer, a lot of it isn’t work you can see, but it powers features for the website and the iOS and Android apps. How long have you been at The Times? My four year anniversary is coming up! I started on July 11, 2016. Most Times employees are working remotely right now.
Could Blockchain Be a Solution to the Issue of Misinformation Online?
The New York Times R&D team built an experimental prototype to find out. A version of this story was published in Times Insider, which delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When a news photo makes its journey from a camera to publication, it passes through many devices, technologies and people. Each step in this journey is designed to ensure the truthfulness and accuracy of the person or event depicted in the photo.
From Print to Digital: Making Over a Million Archived Photos Searchable
A team of technicians has scanned over a million photos into a New York Times database. It took a team of technologists to make those photos searchable. By Jonathan Henry Illustration by Suzie Shin; Photographs from The New York Times Archive A block away from the hustle and bustle of Times Square in New York City, buried three floors below street level, lies The New York Times archive.
How The New York Times Works From Home
From reading poetry at team check-ins to virtual lunches, Times employees are experimenting with new ways of connecting with and motivating their colleagues. When Jack Wheeler got his product manager job at The New York Times in September, 2019, he joyfully left a remote-work life behind, and to commemorate the occasion, he sold his desk.
How to Prepare for an Engineering Interview at The New York Times
By Jason Cornelio and Jeff Louden Over the last couple of years, we’ve written about how we’ve changed our application and hiring processes for software engineering candidates at The New York Times Company. To ensure all candidates are being evaluated consistently, we consolidated multiple job postings into one listing, as our colleague Brian Hamman wrote in 2018.
Can Publishers Use Metadata to Regain the Public’s Trust in Visual Journalism?
The News Provenance Project has been exploring how news organizations might contribute to the fight against misinformation by adding context. “The thing about photos is that they carry with them a lot of credibility.
How We Implemented a Baseline Grid Using CSS
For a story commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, New York Times designers added a Bauhaus-like detail: a baseline grid. Illustration by Eden Weingart/The New York Times To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the German design school known for its adherence to functional design ethos, we published a story in The New York Times featuring architecture from around the world that had been inspired by the school.
It’s All Part of the Plan
How The New York Times designed a planning tool as part of their CMS to help streamline newsroom workflow. The New York Times print paper is sometimes referred to as ‘The Daily Miracle’ for the astounding amount of coordination and labor it takes to produce. The miracle isn’t confined to the printed paper, however. It includes the numerous people who work on a single story, readying it for publication.
Research, Prototype, Repeat - How We Designed NYT Parenting
A behind-the-scenes look into the research, design and iteration behind The New York Times’s Parenting site. By Taylor Poulos, Youngna Park and Juliette Melton Illustration by Cristina Spanó “The Health of Children — A Seasonable Warning” reads the title of the childcare section of The Housekeeper’s Column that appeared in the pages of The New York Times on November 7, 1875.
1 in 4 Americans Own a Smart Speaker. What Does That Mean for News?
We did design research to learn how people use smart speakers. Illustrations by Vinnie Neuberg “Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes.” “Hey Google, what’s the weather?” It’s likely that in the past year, you’ve heard someone talk about their smart speaker. Or you’ve heard a friend ask their smart speaker to play music, check the weather or set a timer. Maybe you have a smart speaker of your own. Whatever your relationship to smart speakers, it’s likely that you’ve been around one.
Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu, Part 2: Over the Wall and into the Fire
On journalism, Patreon, SubscribeStar, and being collateral damage in the Culture Wars of the West I am a futuristic Chinese girl, 1/25th Synthetic, the rest Human. I am from Shenzhen — the most cyberpunk city in the world. I hack hardware, write code, and make things you’ve never seen before.
React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign
The New York Times website is changing, and the technology we use to run it is changing too. As the new site rolls out over the next several months, a look under the hood will reveal a number of modern technologies designed to make the site faster and easier to use — for readers, most importantly, but also for our developers. At the center of this has been our adoption of React, Relay and GraphQL.
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