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Explorations with Medium data, from Medium’s Product Science team

Twitter Sundays, Facebook Wednesdays, and Reddit Fridays: When People Read on the Internet

Twitter Sundays, Facebook Wednesdays, and Reddit Fridays: When People Read on the Internet

The times of day when people read tend to follow consistent patterns each week. Here’s the typical ebb and flow of time spent reading on…
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Mike Sall
Mar 2, 2016
How We Use Data to Suggest Tags for Your Story

How We Use Data to Suggest Tags for Your Story

Here on Medium, we envision tags to be central in organizing and connecting ideas. Follow the tags you’re interested in and Medium will…
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Jacob Kim
Aug 11, 2015
I went a little crazy trying to choose Charted’s colors.

I went a little crazy trying to choose Charted’s colors.

It was actually one of the hardest parts of building and designing it. Here were the general goals:
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Mike Sall
Jul 10, 2015
When is the best time to publish? Wrong question.

When is the best time to publish? Wrong question.

10 charts that show the real story behind publish times
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Mike Sall
Dec 8, 2014
Introducing Charted

Introducing Charted

A new way to share data
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Mike Sall
Nov 24, 2014
Virality lasts 4 days

Virality lasts 4 days

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Mike Sall
Jun 30, 2014

The Data Curious

Or the “Informed Skeptic”
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Pete Davies
May 15, 2014
Double the pain, double the gain

Double the pain, double the gain

The stories that take twice as long to write tend to perform nearly twice as well
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Mike Sall
Apr 16, 2014
Quantifying Network Effects

Quantifying Network Effects

How Medium expands reader engagement by 64%
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Mike Sall
Mar 26, 2014
The Optimal Post is 7 Minutes

The Optimal Post is 7 Minutes

Understanding which Medium posts get the most attention
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Mike Sall
Dec 2, 2013
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